[Navzrrqt]

Sorry, just wanted to share the story of my getting tsukid for the first time (sounds like a 'Baby's First...' book).

Had my first training session in bogu last night (yay for me! damn, I was crap) but anyway, I had, only the day before, recovered from a throat infection and my hearing isn't good at the best of times. So, with the men on I could barely hear anything at all. It comes to keiko (I'm not receiving, obviously) and I get paired up with my best friend. I'm exhausted, still feeling very nervous about the whole bogu thing etc. Anyway, sensei motioned to the motodachi to stop after a while so we go into chudan and stand there for a while whilst the seniors are still going. Then my friend nods to me. I'm feeling a fair bit fuddled and because in the past, whenever he's been motodachi for me, he's nodded as a way of saying "c'mon, attack, what are you waiting for?" so I go I think to myself "oh, we're not meant to finish?" and launch into a men strike and bang! go bouncing back from his tensen. Certainly surprised both of us. What was embarrassing was we were right in front of where all the beginners, including a few of my friends, were watching. Turns out he'd said "well done" and nodded to me but I couldn't hear him!

So my first tsuki was impaling myself on my friend's shinai and I discovered it doesn't hurt!

[AndyPharmc]

well... dats not really a tsuki...

I got hit by Tsuki a really good one.. and I could barely talk.. i was coughing .. >_<

dangerious stuff.. imagine that tsuki had missed.. i'd have a huge hikkie on my neck or worse..

[gusunsuth]

well... dats not really a tsuki... Aww, now you put facts in the story

Always ruins a good tale

[overavantstandard]

So my first tsuki was impaling myself on my friend's shinai and I discovered it doesn't hurt!

Tee, Hee, I've only recently started wearing Bogu too. My first experience of a 'tsuki type' hit was exactly the same - Yes, I walked staright onto my sparring partners shinai too. It didn't hurt, BUT it phazed us completely for a couple of seconds!

[Rchzygnc]

Well, to share more these kinds of stories. My shinai poked through my sempai's shinai as in between his shinai's staves! He said, "That's good! That means you're holding a good strong Kamae!" That was weird...

[SappyAppy]

I already had my first tsuki and my first missed tsuki and the last left a mark on my neck which looked like a rather big hicky.

[RBJamez]

Damn. Can't wait to start tsuki. At least kendo can make you look like you get mad-ladies because of it.

[forotis]

Damn. Can't wait to start tsuki. At least kendo can make you look like you get mad-ladies because of it.

You most likely first have to learn the receiving side which will mean you'll receive some missers too which can be rather painfull.

The advantage of a missed tsuki is having an extra carefull sempai, so you can abuse this advantage if you're not having too much pain

[AssinHT]

Theoretically, I'd imagine that the commitment to an action becomes extremely important when parrying a tsuki. If you halfass, you'll get hit on the bare neck, no?

Well, I'm not too worried about it at the moment. The biggest thing I've learned so far regarding kendo is that talking about something and doing it are very, very different.

[drexigordiche]

I have been tsuki'd a few times, but they were not really serious. A few keiko's ago, I versed a 3 dan sempai and he did a beautiful 1-handed tsuki to me in jigeiko. I was shocked for too reasons:

1.) I didn't know how to react

2.) Tsuki is a little taboo at my dojo so I had the "Oh no you didn't" reaction which was me standing there with my shinai off-center for a fraction of a second before going back to center.

Tsuki, when done well, can be a fun time....

[VarenHokalos]

Damn. Can't wait to start tsuki. At least kendo can make you look like you get mad-ladies because of it.

That is a different type of renzoku "tsuki" that gets you the mad-ladies.

[beth]

LOL ! Renzoku tsuki..
Haha congratz for the expression

[slarceSelia]

What's 'Renzoku'?

Well, Monday was my first tsuki and first time in armour, tonight was my first mock shiai! Now that was interesting....

Learnt a lot about kiai

[Seeseeskeva]

You haven't really lived until you've had a 4-inch tsuki-"hickey" on your neck for 3 or 4 weeks...

[NicolasOL]

What's 'Renzoku'?

It means "continuous" or "one right after the other."

[uphokyhuP]

I think I got hit with one of the most perfect 2 handed tsukis yesterday. If I Didnt have decent posture, I probably would have had a concussion. An eye opening experience.....literally.

[MormefWrarebe]

My first tsuki.... It was a few weeks ago and we were meant to be doing ji-geiko but I was partnered with a friend of mine who is a shodan and she decided to teach me tsuki. We didn't rotate partners much that lesson so we did an awful lot of tsuki! It was fab... though it felt like a had a massive orange taped to the outside of my throught all night (massive orange? darn, I was never much good at similies ).

[ballingham]

Newbie: Renzoku is used in kendo when you do several cuts in the same motion... You know, men kote do men... etc
Or men men men :P
(so you can imagine what kuzu70 meant by renzoku tsuki now)

Hint: I am not going to draw you anything...