[JulietOreira]

Kitsune, from reading what you wrote here and in the 10 things post (the part where you wrote something about hating it when another kenshi thinks they are better than you and you can see that they aren't) I'd say that maybe you need to examine your own attitude in Kendo first.

I'm not going to write, "please don't take offense at this," because I have a feeling that you will. I think you'll probably take offense because I would have and from what you've written and your profile I have a feeling that we are a lot alike. I'm 26, female, work in the media field, and am rather new to Kendo myself.

I also used to get upset about other kenshi in my dojo. Not for the same reasons though, my beef was about the kenshi going out of the line during yakusoku-keiko, thus making me go through the line again and again with no rest. But I've realized that devoting attention to what others were doing was bringing my Kendo down. And I've also realized that what Gendzwill-sensei wrote was correct. They (sensei) do take note.

Basically the point I am trying to get across is not to let what other people are doing have an affect on your Kendo and certainly don't let it make you do something that is antithical to Kendo (tsuki someone with malicious intent). It'll all tell in the shiai-jo is my take on it.