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**erepsysoulperj** · 10-11-2006, 01:05 PM

Yeah.. the word I heard is that "they" will be building a special structure solely for the kendo class... ....35,000 sq ft is what I heard, but maybe that's a bit inflated. I don't know. Don't care.
I'm happy for my friend, but... I'm kinda pissed about it at the same time.... y'know, he could have moved here instead.. Memphis being such a fine, upstanding, great city in which to raise kids and all that.. [/sarcasm]

We used to look forward to going to TMG every year because that was generally the one place we could count on going to... Now, that leaves the next closest dojo as Atlanta --- which has great kendo and great instructors... but they didn't have that year-to-year gettogether like we counted on from TMG.

*sigh* .... great news for the Orlando folks.. I'm just depressed about it.

(BTW.. if anybody remembers my telling of a story when I was ikkyu and full of mock ego... and I told my instructor I would kick Maeda-sensei's butt! ... and he emailed Maeda about it... Yeah.. And so I finally met sensei and he said, "I hear you will kick my butt. Please wait..." ...and he proceded to turn his tare around backwards... "I must first protect my butt!"

... that should tell you a little bit about his sense of humor.. but his kendo is still deadly serious. Outstanding kendoka and sensei.

10-11-2006, 01:05 PM	#7
erepsysoulperj Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 387 Senior Member	Yeah.. the word I heard is that "they" will be building a special structure solely for the kendo class... ....35,000 sq ft is what I heard, but maybe that's a bit inflated. I don't know. Don't care. I'm happy for my friend, but... I'm kinda pissed about it at the same time.... y'know, he could have moved here instead.. Memphis being such a fine, upstanding, great city in which to raise kids and all that.. [/sarcasm] We used to look forward to going to TMG every year because that was generally the one place we could count on going to... Now, that leaves the next closest dojo as Atlanta --- which has great kendo and great instructors... but they didn't have that year-to-year gettogether like we counted on from TMG. sigh .... great news for the Orlando folks.. I'm just depressed about it. (BTW.. if anybody remembers my telling of a story when I was ikkyu and full of mock ego... and I told my instructor I would kick Maeda-sensei's butt! ... and he emailed Maeda about it... Yeah.. And so I finally met sensei and he said, "I hear you will kick my butt. Please wait..." ...and he proceded to turn his tare around backwards... "I must first protect my butt!" ... that should tell you a little bit about his sense of humor.. but his kendo is still deadly serious. Outstanding kendoka and sensei.
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