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**immoceefe** · 05-25-2006, 12:31 AM

I know this will get some peoples undies in a bunch, so thats why Im asking for advice!
My sister runs a program for highschool kids that are considered to be "high risk" -ie will drop out of school, get into trouble often, have a hard family life etc. Every week they have someone come in to do a talk and activity with the kids - so far they have had the police, actors, people from different professions and so on, give talks about what you can achieve in life if you give it a go. My sister has bugged me for ages to give a talk and demo about kendo. Ive never felt comfortable doing it becasue Ive only been doing kendo for about a year. However, while I was away for work, she booked me in.

Apparently the kids love the program and really like to get involved and have a go. Im thinking of getting them to make newspaper shinai and get them kiai-ing and practising cuts at eachother...

The main point of the whole exercise is NOT "come and join", its to stress the fact that culture is a wonderful thing, that exercise and health is essential, and that sticking with something is worthwhile; even if its difficult. I will also be talking about going to university and travelling and so on.

Any ideas on how I should go about this guys? Any imput would be great.

05-25-2006, 12:31 AM	#1
immoceefe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	doing a kendo demo I know this will get some peoples undies in a bunch, so thats why Im asking for advice! My sister runs a program for highschool kids that are considered to be "high risk" -ie will drop out of school, get into trouble often, have a hard family life etc. Every week they have someone come in to do a talk and activity with the kids - so far they have had the police, actors, people from different professions and so on, give talks about what you can achieve in life if you give it a go. My sister has bugged me for ages to give a talk and demo about kendo. Ive never felt comfortable doing it becasue Ive only been doing kendo for about a year. However, while I was away for work, she booked me in. Apparently the kids love the program and really like to get involved and have a go. Im thinking of getting them to make newspaper shinai and get them kiai-ing and practising cuts at eachother... The main point of the whole exercise is NOT "come and join", its to stress the fact that culture is a wonderful thing, that exercise and health is essential, and that sticking with something is worthwhile; even if its difficult. I will also be talking about going to university and travelling and so on. Any ideas on how I should go about this guys? Any imput would be great.
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