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**isogeople** · 12-22-2005, 08:00 AM

Originally posted by ben
Good points Ares.

One thought though. Maybe Kendokamax is trying to put more sutemi into his kendo. [snippage] This is always a danger when you train with people equal or lower than you in skill/experiecne, or become overly familiar with a small number of people's keiko (a problem most of us gaijin-kendoka face). re sutemi, Very possibly. I wondered about that myself. The small dojo numbers thing can potentially really stifle your progression, especially at the earlier stages, so in that sense, mixing it up is good.
In Japan, most sho/chu gakkou kendo students training seems to consist of about 90% uchikomi/kakari geiko, which doesn't call for the degree of seme that keiko can do, so perhaps in a sense, perhaps kendokamax is trying to get that sort of feel from his training, my concern was more about the formation of bad habits that may accompany this sort of training. I wouldn't wish ingrained kendo bad habits on anyone. . .well not too many people anyway.

BTWIMHO there's no such thing as perfection through practice. There's just practice.
^_^

b I was talking more about goals n stuff

There's the unending pursuit of perfection, not necessarily the attainment of it. The day I do the perfect men cut is the day I stop doing kendo.

12-22-2005, 08:00 AM	#8
isogeople Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 476 Senior Member	Originally posted by ben Good points Ares. One thought though. Maybe Kendokamax is trying to put more sutemi into his kendo. [snippage] This is always a danger when you train with people equal or lower than you in skill/experiecne, or become overly familiar with a small number of people's keiko (a problem most of us gaijin-kendoka face). re sutemi, Very possibly. I wondered about that myself. The small dojo numbers thing can potentially really stifle your progression, especially at the earlier stages, so in that sense, mixing it up is good. In Japan, most sho/chu gakkou kendo students training seems to consist of about 90% uchikomi/kakari geiko, which doesn't call for the degree of seme that keiko can do, so perhaps in a sense, perhaps kendokamax is trying to get that sort of feel from his training, my concern was more about the formation of bad habits that may accompany this sort of training. I wouldn't wish ingrained kendo bad habits on anyone. . .well not too many people anyway. BTWIMHO there's no such thing as perfection through practice. There's just practice. ^_^ b I was talking more about goals n stuff There's the unending pursuit of perfection, not necessarily the attainment of it. The day I do the perfect men cut is the day I stop doing kendo.
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