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Confound wrote:
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> Your post made me laugh. Very hard.
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I'm always glad to provide comic relief to others! Perhaps I was also a bit too quick to judge, and so I assure you there is no need to get ruffled.

>'Spirit training'? if you're going to get all 'cultural' on us, maybe
>you should come and live here. trust me, it's a real trip.

Hrm... so there is an implicit assumption here on your part that I haven't lived in Japan... Actually, I spent quite a bit of time in Japan where I had the very good fortune of learning under Fukumoto sensei, Toda-sensei, Kato-sensei (shihan of Imperial Police, ret.) and Sato-sensei (Head of Tokyo Metropolitan Police, ret.), both at universities and with (obviously) the police.

As to getting 'cultural', sure, I can get all sorts of 'cultural'. But I won't because I'm no expert and my rants would be pretty worthless -- but I will ask this question: how can one NOT get cultural if studying kendo is also a study of culture (Japanese and human)?

I am somewhat surprised to learn that a kenshi is not familiar with my use of the term 'spirit training'. It seems to me that, in kendo, it is a rather established and fundamental idea (if not the term itself)... Let not our enthusiasm for reigi make us lose sight of kendo's martial roots, for otherwise we'd all be doing sado (sincerely no offense intended to the sado practitioner-reader)...

Hyaku wrote:
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>Kendoka that wish too hospitalize you.
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Oh ok. Now I understand what you mean.

One has to learn to deal with those people too, no? Just like in the real world, not everyone's nice.

[Trikaduliana]

Maybe it's part of the tradition.

I have a japanese sensei, quite in his fifties and he learned kendo in the police dojo of the Saitama prefecture, if I am not mistaken, since he's from Kyoto.

He always picks on the students he likes. When I was beginning, he would stand in front of me to check if each suburi was perfectly done. When I've put bogu, he would push me around for speed, whack me in the back, shout, and all else which I'd expect him to do. When he didn't do that, I thought that Iwas doing something wrong because he wasn't caring for me. Later on he would tsuki me to show me my lack of concentration, push me around with taiatari blows and so and so and so.

I see no reason for ego bruises, nor hatred, nor anything. Noone is forcing you to go to the dojo for keiko. But if you go, you do it aware of what may happen to you. I don condone "bullying", but since I didn't see the scene I'll take your judgment for it Confound. Bullying is bad. Stout discipline is good. So-so.

Alex Polli

[SNUfR8uI]

Hi where do you live in Miyagi? I'm just north of you in Iwate and about 30 minutes from Furukawa.
Never seen that kind of abuse around here and yeah it's a bit too much.

Hope to hear from you,

Jonathan

[HaremShaih]

Hyaku: I don't understand your post. "There are some out there..."? What's out there?

And as to reading the other posts, yes I did and like I had said, my response was to Confound's original question.