[plantBanceper]

thanks tijs !
is it for me (a beginning kendoka) a good thing to be a member of the dutch kendo renmei?

Hmmmm.... I'm speaking from an iaido point of view, but yes. It's good to support your national kendo association. They want to spread kendo/iaido/jodo and they want to improve the level of their members. They do this by organizing training sessions, tournaments, embu, exams, etc.

Why is it good for you? Simple, by becoming a member of your national kendo association you can enter central training sessions and tournaments and grow as a kendoka/jodoka/iaidoka. Central training sessions, tournaments, embu and exams are great learning experiences. You meet other kendoka/jodoka/iaidoka, with different views, more experience, other skills, etc. Loads of stuff you can learn. You do need to have some basic knowledge to participate, so becoming a member of the nkr is not a priority but in time when you feel up to it, please do.

Now that I'm done playing a sales representative. A simpler answer to your question: Ask your sensei, (in your case) she knows when you ready to participate. Don’t be afraid of her and ask all your questions, they aren’t stupid, she won’t kill you.

Although… she knows how to use a shinken

Mr. T and Fonz are Dutchies
Now what do you think about that?
They wear their Dutchie raincoats and they wear their Dutchie hats.
They wear their Dutchie socks and they wear their Dutchie shoes.
And every Saturday evening,
they read the Dutchie news.


Who says I'm not mature?

Uhhh… me?

[maniaringsq]

Hmmmm.... I'm speaking from an iaido point of view, but yes. It's good to support your national kendo association. They want to spread kendo/iaido/jodo and they want to improve the level of their members. They do this by organizing training sessions, tournaments, embu, exams, etc.

Why is it good for you? Simple, by becoming a member of your national kendo association you can enter central training sessions and tournaments and grow as a kendoka/jodoka/iaidoka. Central training sessions, tournaments, embu and exams are great learning experiences. You meet other kendoka/jodoka/iaidoka, with different views, more experience, other skills, etc. Loads of stuff you can learn. You do need to have some basic knowledge to participate, so becoming a member of the nkr is not a priority but in time when you feel up to it, please do.

Now that I'm done playing a sales representative. A simpler answer to your question: Ask your sensei, (in your case) she knows when you ready to participate. Don’t be afraid of her and ask all your questions, they aren’t stupid, she won’t kill you.

Although… she knows how to use a shinken

hey tijs !

thanks for the complete aswer, to be honest the first thing i thought of was what can the NKR do for me, but the question should allso be what can i do for NKR (kendo), good point !!!

and i will be sure to talk to yvonne-sensai about it, and yes she SURE knows how to use a shinken
be sure to see me at the central training when the time comes, if i have to say anything about it, it will be the next one around,

i have just ordered a zekken with my name an dojo on it and "Dennis" on the bottom, so you should be able to reconise me
i allso have a second hand bogu allready (with, since yesterday a way cool home-made stand) speak to you soon buddy !


Dennis "d33m4n"

p.s. you have a PM

[tomspoumn]

Mr. T and Fonz are Dutchies
Now what do you think about that?
They wear their Dutchie raincoats and they wear their Dutchie hats.
They wear their Dutchie socks and they wear their Dutchie shoes.
And every Saturday evening,
they read the Dutchie news.


Who says I'm not mature?

Mr. President,
I would advice that you stear clear of the intricate Dutch Internal Affairs. Which may seem trivial to you. We have troubles enough as it is as you can see. We don't need your traumatizing remarks to add to the burden that living in Holland is.
So I would like to respectfully ask that you refrain from meddling in our affairs.
Please? Please pretty please?

[DumnEuronoumn]

So I guess the Pulitzer prize for poetry is out of the question then.

[c2siOlIk]

Hoi Dennis,

I practise in Rotterdam at Fumetsu with Odinot sensei, van Hattum sensei and Barbier sensei.

If you'll attend central practise you'll meet me sooner or later cause I try to go to them all.

[Bxbhtjnr]

i have just ordered a zekken with my name an dojo on it and "Dennis" on the bottom, so you should be able to reconise me

It will take a while before you'll meet me. I'm an iaidoka, not a kendoka (yet). My iai zekken is made as we speak, but it's written in katakana and kanji only. But we northerners are easy to recognize during central training sessions (I'm talking about iai). We usually are with a group of 6 to 8 persons (about 10/15% of the participants). We're pretty fanatical about going to these central training sessions (the more training opportunities, the better). Until one of us takes up a second art (you iaido, me kendo) we we'll probably won't meet each other soon. But if you go to an iai event start looking for a tall, white, skinny shodan (you now know why I picked Mr. T. as my nickname ).

[xpllmr]

So I guess the Pulitzer prize for poetry is out of the question then.

I'm afraid that for the latter contribution in this thread yes. But I have seen some gems which you might not recognize as such in other threads.
By the way I still think it is very funny that everyone in this thread is going through great efforts to communicate in English about Dutch affairs.
On a side note if anyone ever meets Mr. T can you check if he really sweats during practice? Try to do it "by accident" don't sniff him out. Let me know if Iaidoka really sweat instead of making angry faces.

[Assunkkensatt]

hahaha yeah fonsz, i think it's because dutch people are so friendly and try to include everyone, it is nice to see everybody going out of there way to talk english,

centrale training sounds very cool !!

are there picture sites?

[sykanaxer]

I'm afraid that for the latter contribution in this thread yes. But I have seen some gems which you might not recognize as such in other threads.
By the way I still think it is very funny that everyone in this thread is going through great efforts to communicate in English about Dutch affairs.
On a side note if anyone ever meets Mr. T can you check if he really sweats during practice? Try to do it "by accident" don't sniff him out. Let me know if Iaidoka really sweat instead of making angry faces.

Sniff me... I'm not some kind of drug (depends who you'll ask , small ego trip)! I hardly sweat during seitei, but koryu is hard work (got a reminder of that during practise today). You try getting up out of tate hiza again and again and again, etc. And if you wanna sniff me out just make sure you're a good looking woman, otherwise you'll eat my iaito .

i think it's because dutch people are so friendly and try to include everyone.

You definitely haven’t met me

[KellyMP]

You definitely haven’t met me

i'm sure it'll be fine, a big black guy with lots of gold jewels, what's not to like

[Injurnerona]

I hope this thread isn't dead yet. I just joined the forum after some lurking and this seems like the best place to make my first post as dutchie.

Hello

[Tryphadz]

Hi,

Of course the tread isn't dead, we Dutch are like cockroaches. Once we arrive somewhere it's almost impossible to get rid of us . Welcome to the forum by the way.

So, tell us a little bit more about yourself. Who is your kendo sensei? Where do you train and how long have you been training, that kind of stuff.

[lymnCymment]

Let's see..I train at Renshinjuku in Amstelveen founded by Bert Heeren sensei.I started training Kendo in januari last year, so that makes it one year and a month.

I really love Kendo, but my passion is and always will be Ju Jitsu. I do that for about 9-10 years now(time goes by fast ) On the road to my ShoDan examination for Ju Jitsu I decided that I wanted to do something extra to improve my techniques and ofcourse myself, so I went to my sensei and he talked about that he was going to start training Kendo again after a long break. Me and a friend both joined in with him and we started going to kendo every saturday

Sadly, because of this I can only train kendo once a week, all the other days im busy with Ju Jitsu.

I really love martial arts, I guess the reason why I train this much is because in the dojo, you have no worries from the outside world. It's just you, your fellow students and your sensei. All you need to concentrate on is the martial art. And with kendo it's even better, I love to get exhausted it leaves a nice feeling

[Enliseell]

heyyyy a new dutchie !! welkom !!

[unapelosina]

hallo


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[occalmnab]

Edo sensei will soon be giving a seminar at your dojo barth.

It's gonna be so crowded.

[bredkumanfirst]

yeah, i think that will be SO cool, i'm gonna be there i think !
to bad i don't have my zekken yet

[opergolon]

Edo sensei will soon be giving a seminar at your dojo barth.

It's gonna be so crowded.

Was looking forward to meeting all the fellow dutchies; and other fellow kendoka offcourse, but I dont think my bogu will arrive in time
Still might go; depending on who is going from my dojo and if sensei says I'm up to it.

[Vodonaeva]

Ah, that seminar. I don't know if I Can be there though cause the next day I have a ju jitsu tournament. If I go to that seminar I'll prolly be all broken the next day
Usually when I have a tournament or something else related I only do the beginners practice, helps me get things out of my mind and prepare

[animilius]

i'm really looking forward to saturday, never been to anything other then my own dojo