[gariharlj]

http://community.webshots.com/album/563278730urwkvU

[avitalporatova]

Don't do what?!

Hit rocks with it? Prune trees with? Defend yourself from flying coral with it? Use it as a reason to insult someone?

There is so much to choose from.

[Zptmsemk]

Here's another thing you shouldn't do with a shinken:

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17949

[TerAlelmlor]

Here's another thing you shouldn't do with a shinken:

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17949

I was joking. All I have to do is call my doctor a patient, call my mother my daughter, and then it's settled. I was having fun.

[arindiruppyr]

Here's an idea: don't post about tooling around with dangerous weapons on a forum full of people who take JSA seriously, and don't insult the people and things we respect. You clearly need help.

[NanoGordeno]

Here's an idea: don't post about tooling around with dangerous weapons on a forum full of people who take JSA seriously, and don't insult the people and things we respect. You clearly need help.

Oroshi, I do respect swords, especially japanese swords which I have a rather large past with. They are sacred to me. However, those two things (the coral and the stone) were total accidents. All That IS did it, not ME.

By the way, it doesn't show it on the picture about the coral, but the highest nick is actually right below the monouchi, so the nicks are a sort of measurement for me - they tell me where I am striking, if I get straw in a nick I know my form is off.

Cool it, dude.

[zoneouddy]

May I ask why you've chosen to hit coral and trees with a shinken? Why do you feel that nicks in the blade are a "sort of measurement" and that damaging a blade like that is ok to do? If shinken are sacred to you as you claim, then why did you strike a rock in anger? I find it highly unlikely that striking coral and a tree were accidents and that it was more likely that they were deliberate. What Oroshi said was spot on. Stop what you're doing, take a minute to reevaluate our actions, and come back when you have decided to discontinue this nonesense.

[Chooriwrocaxz]

May I ask why you've chosen to hit coral and trees with a shinken? Why do you feel that nicks in the blade are a "sort of measurement" and that damaging a blade like that is ok to do? If shinken are sacred to you as you claim, then why did you strike a rock in anger? I find it highly unlikely that striking coral and a tree were accidents and that it was more likely that they were deliberate. What Oroshi said was spot on. Stop what you're doing, take a minute to reevaluate our actions, and come back when you have decided to discontinue this nonesense.

I'll recall the coral and stone encounters as clearly as possible:

There was a piece of coral, I tossed it in the air and cut it. Mistake number 1, acknowledged.

For the tree/rock I wasn't angry, it's just that I made a jagged cut on a twig, and on my second swing the rock was there. I was unaware of it until I actually hit it.

It's rather funny, but at my own expensive. It will never happen again.

[riverakathy]

Mr. Karai is taking a one week break from KW. Maybe he'll figure out what to do when he comes back.

[WapSaibian]

Hopefully Karai is still reading, he may find the following information of some importance:

http://www.iaido.org/pages/tameshigiri.html

It should be noted that the Canadian Iaido Association follows the instruction of Esaka sensei, thus tameshigiri is not permitted.

Let alone trees, rocks, coral, etc.

[Assentesy]

Why ppl like him has the money to have shinkens and destroy them doing stupidity like those. Why oh why?
I'm mad

[shinesw]

Think you should take up sword swallowing, put your shinken to some good use!

[Quick$bux]

Why ppl like him has the money to have shinkens and destroy them doing stupidity like those. Why oh why?
I'm mad

I dont think his shinken is one of those multi-thousand dollars Gendaito made in Japan. Probably one of those $300 folded steel types you can find in martial art stores.

[Shootohoist]

I dont think his shinken is one of those multi-thousand dollars Gendaito made in Japan. Probably one of those $300 folded steel types you can find in martial art stores.

It's still a waste. Honestly, you REALLY have 300$ to waste?