[Zaebal]

Indeed,
I find his lack of faith ...disturbing....

ok, don't hit me, I'll stop, ouch ouch...


A

[OixKKcj1]

Originally posted by Ian Russell
Heh, mantra of the day... "The purpose of practicing kendo is not to become a Jedi master, the purpose of practi... The force is weak with this one...

(Sorry..couldnt help it!!!)


Jakob

[zzquo0iR]

Originally posted by mingshi
And please don't quote " The Purpose of Kendo" all the time. They are not the Jedi Codes! Heh, mantra of the day... "The purpose of practicing kendo is not to become a Jedi master, the purpose of practi...

[fetesiceWaist]

Not my words - I'm picking up on cklin's posting elsewhere...

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The cerebral me is fascinated with the seemingly irreconcilable dichotomy of reigi and the act of bashing someone's head in (that's another thread).
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What intrigues me is this - does this seem confusing to others, or do you find it natural? I ask because to me it seems very "right" to be bowing to someone that I am about to "fight" (I am still a novice though, so not much fighting as such). They might be about to kick my ass, or maybe (one day) I might kick theirs - but surely we both have something to learn from the encounter. This is actually one of the things I most love about Kendo - the feeling that those of greater experience and skill still look to junior kendoka to learn things from, as well as kendoka of greater skill.

I asked our Sensei (6th dan), who he learnt from mostly nowadays. Looking around his students, his answer was "You".



Dave

[CHEAPSOFTOEMONLINE]

What? It's all about "Western Australia?"

[Jon Woodgate]

Originally posted by Kendoka
David J, reigi fits if you understand the above concept.

Good luck, I am sure we all are faced with dichotomies and confusion in our study of Kendo !

Richard Just for the record, its not me that is confused by this idea, it was based on a quote by cklin. Me, I dig the bowing thing I was just interested to see what other thought. Thanks all for comments raised so far, and to mingshi for reining us back in



Dave

[Q0KmoR8K]

Ben: these are the answers that I've come to for those questions FWIW. Maybe they are too simplistic...

1. Stay relaxed/explosiveness -- it's physiological. If your muscles are tensed, then you have to relax them THEN contract them. If you are relaxed, you only have to contract them. The former takes time and so explosiveness is dampened.

2. "No thought"/analysis -- this can only be achieved by practice. Do it so much, your mind doesn't HAVE to think to tell your body to do the right thing.

No original ideas here, just ones that I believe in...

[DrJonson]

cklin: as you just pointed out, this 'dichotomy' is far from irreconcilable. It actually makes perfect sense to bow and then hit someone on the head; it is the only way one can hit another person on the head and not get charged with assault

But what about other irreconcilable dichotomies? For instance how to stay relaxed and yet be explosive? Or how to achieve "no thought" and yet still be able to analyse your opponents movements? Is there a way of discussing these?

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