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**Brainpole** · 01-03-2006, 08:00 AM

Hi everybody,

I am going to be ordering bogu, and I e-mailed our Kumdo teacher, asking him what he thought of either 5mm or 6mm stitch, and that I had been thinking about getting it from bogubag.com, after having looked at a lot of different places. Well, he wrote back and said to get the economy(?) bogu, and that any bogu or other things such as uniform and shinai had to be bought through the dojang or I would not be allowed to use it in class. So, I told my mother, and she had my sister-in-law, whom he has never met and doesn't know she is my relative, go into the dojang to meet him today, and she asked him abut Kumdo, and then after asking everything else, asked him about buying bogu after 3 months, and if she could buy it anywhere she wanted, besides the dojang. He told her that she could buy it from any place she wanted to, and did not have to buy from him.

So, now I am very unhappy with him. I have not said anything yet, anf my mother says to go buy it anyway, because the stuff I want, is Japanese made. I do not want to buy Korean bogu-no offense meant to that. I just have been reading here and at other places that Japanese bogu may be made better. Not only that, there is a particular 5mm set I really want at bogubag. I do not like the idea of being told I have to purchase stuff through him or nobody else. I think it is impolite.

What do you all make of this?? I have never heard of such a thing. All I did, was ask his opinion on which stitching is better to get, and I get this go buy an economy set, reply. That isn't what I had asked him, either.

So, any ideas?? I think I will go buy it anyway, because I'd rather be well protected and safer than be sorry. I am very small, and want good bogu.

So, what do all of you think about this?? Is this even right for him to try to make me buy from him? Now, I would not have minded him suggesting I look at what he had to offer, but then allowing me to buy where I wanted if I didn't like it, but this? No. I haven't replied to him yet, because I don't know what to say. Maybe I approached the thing wrong? I still want to buy what I found.

Thank you very much for reading my post.

Kaoru

01-03-2006, 08:00 AM	#11
Brainpole Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	Anybody in Kumdo or Kendo heard of this?? Hi everybody, I am going to be ordering bogu, and I e-mailed our Kumdo teacher, asking him what he thought of either 5mm or 6mm stitch, and that I had been thinking about getting it from bogubag.com, after having looked at a lot of different places. Well, he wrote back and said to get the economy(?) bogu, and that any bogu or other things such as uniform and shinai had to be bought through the dojang or I would not be allowed to use it in class. So, I told my mother, and she had my sister-in-law, whom he has never met and doesn't know she is my relative, go into the dojang to meet him today, and she asked him abut Kumdo, and then after asking everything else, asked him about buying bogu after 3 months, and if she could buy it anywhere she wanted, besides the dojang. He told her that she could buy it from any place she wanted to, and did not have to buy from him. So, now I am very unhappy with him. I have not said anything yet, anf my mother says to go buy it anyway, because the stuff I want, is Japanese made. I do not want to buy Korean bogu-no offense meant to that. I just have been reading here and at other places that Japanese bogu may be made better. Not only that, there is a particular 5mm set I really want at bogubag. I do not like the idea of being told I have to purchase stuff through him or nobody else. I think it is impolite. What do you all make of this?? I have never heard of such a thing. All I did, was ask his opinion on which stitching is better to get, and I get this go buy an economy set, reply. That isn't what I had asked him, either. So, any ideas?? I think I will go buy it anyway, because I'd rather be well protected and safer than be sorry. I am very small, and want good bogu. So, what do all of you think about this?? Is this even right for him to try to make me buy from him? Now, I would not have minded him suggesting I look at what he had to offer, but then allowing me to buy where I wanted if I didn't like it, but this? No. I haven't replied to him yet, because I don't know what to say. Maybe I approached the thing wrong? I still want to buy what I found. Thank you very much for reading my post. Kaoru
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