May 2013
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I had a taikai today, here are my matches →
今日大会あったからこれはおれの試合やで！
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my two cents on advice giving (silly52)
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I don’t give advice at all unless its my junior
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April 2013
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Salmagundi!: I don’t have kendo tonight. That’s... →
toastyhat:
I don’t have kendo tonight.
That’s weird.
Like, Thursdays have been canceled a couple of times before, but this feels so…different. I can’t believe I’ve been doing this sport since the start of the year. That’s a lot of months of weeks of tuesdays and thursdays, and I only skipped practice…
I hope I am not late, but you should email or call them before going to their dojo.
azure-del-cielo:
my entire upper body is still sore from wednesday practice….
but it definitely felt good to be back after 3 months, though I opted to stay out of bogu for most of practice.
Keep up the training! Push yourself to your limit :)
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Monday and Tuesday's training
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So Shinpans at nationals weren’t used to seeing our fast Kendo? Hahahahahaha
Dojo drama and plan set backs!
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A couple of months?! なんでやねん！ Is this the couple you told me about in Sydney? Hahahaha
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March 2013
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oh man
regor10:
i sweat so hard even its kinda cold outside while doing kendo. i bet summer will be the hell
Summer training in Japan and Australia is hard, in Japan it is humid, in Australia it is a dry heat. :(
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first time in bogu
kendoblog:
had my first session in bogu. it felt restrictive, hot, strange… took away all the freedom of movement I used to have. but at the same time i loved it. i don’t know but it feels more real, more proper, and i like the feeling of being ‘hidden’ under the armour.
this is the 2nd stage at which most people give up (the first being within the first few weeks of starting). i’m not going...
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Kendo Last Night (Illustrated!)
toastyhat:
I confessed to one of the visiting kendoka that I felt very out of place and nervous because they were so cool, and she just shook her head and smiled and told me, “Just stretch!”
And suddenly that was okay. And they were all very chill and not scary at all. I’m still ten kinds of bad at talking to people, but it was definitely okay.
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これは漫画みたい！
This looks like Manga!...
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今日の審査！Today's grading →
This is the video of me doing 1st kyu grading
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Nervous for Kendo Tonight
toastyhat:
but for different reasons than usual! This lady who sometimes practices with us is bringing friends over from her club, so there’ll be a bunch of new people in rotation… I feel like our usual club members are used to my problems, but now I have to try and perform in front of new people. -_-
Gotta stop caring about other people seeing my flaws and do my best to take care of them...
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KENDO COACH ABUSES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS →
mateo-san:
studentsofthesword:
Everybody watch this. This has been the trending news in Japan for the last three days. It is sickening.
DAFUQ??? what´s wrong with this son of a c#nt…..
da hell, i would´ve tsukied him so hard in the face……
それはだめだよ！
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Students of the Sword: bad dream! →
studentsofthesword:
So I had a terrible kendo dream this morning!
I was at the Australian Championships (which is next Saturday) and I was fighting this guy in the first round and I lost!
But then I had two other fights and won 2-0 in both, and I even scored an ippon by tsuki, but they wouldn’t let me progress…
Now I know you will try to Tsuki me
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俺の先生は「全国大会のためにあまり飲んでください」と言った！；－： My sensei told me to stop drinking before the national kendo championships.
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Ouch! tonights training
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That training sounds kind of like renzoku ouji-waza training, there is a better name for it probably :)
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tonights sudden kendo practice
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お疲れさま
February 2013
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Tea and Crumpets: So I am apparently a five foot... →
thejerseydeviledoodleblog:
Tonight’s practice I must have been in the zone — I’m not usually an aggressive player but for tonight’s shiai I thought to myself: Damn I need to step up my game.
And I changed it up decided to be aggressive instead of reactive-defensive and well, it worked.
I’m quite proud of myself, and am…
これは剣道の一番強い考えること
This is the strongest way of thinking in kendo
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Bogu smell
English post today.
To make your kote smell less:
After keiko, put spare tenugui into kote. It will absorb most of the sweat from training.
Let it dry completely after keiko and take out the now smelly tenugui.
Put in freezer to kill bacteria (maybe a day or over night)
When you take it out, don’t disturb the material too much and allow to soften.
Should smell a lot less.
Maybe you...
January 2013
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Students of the Sword: not again.. →
studentsofthesword:
So I skipped kendo again last night on account of the fact I have a cold. It makes me so angry! Man I hate colds. Oh well, Saturday it is.
Also been organising ‘returning home’ stuff. I’m really excited actually. I absolutely can’t wait. As much as I love Japan, it is only kendo, and the people…
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Rant
It’s rare that I post non-Kendo related things here on Tumblr but this will be one of the rare times. Though it has some Kendo in it- but nothing interesting to you. This is to get stuff off my chest. It will also be in Japanese.
実彼女と別れた時から私の剣の道はなくなりました。
最近、私はいつも自分に「なぜ私の剣道は悪くなりましたか？」と聞きました。
気持ち、礼儀、などなど、ぜんぶは悪くなりました。
実は、私達は州の大会の前に別れましたから気分はちょっと。。。へんです。
いつも勝てません。
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稽古, Practice
今、オーストラリアには夏だけど最近、かかり稽古いっぱいした！かかり稽古のなつだよ！orz
It’s summer here in Australia, but recently we’ve done a lot of kakarigeiko! It’s the summer of kakarigeiko! orz
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