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**8cyVn4RJ** · 07-07-2006, 07:00 AM

I just smile and say to myself "well if this person keeps banging their Shinai on the floor, I am going to be a better Kendoka than him sooner than I would have otherwise. As a matter of fact I am better already." With that thought in my mind I hold my kamae and my Shinai up with humility and self-respect.

Not only is this paragraph directly self-contradictory, it's also pretty damn arrogant. Let's not forget that, as you say, we are 'junior' kendoka.
If you think that hitting the floor with your shinai is going to cause it significant damage, then I guess you're not much one for do strikes either...

07-07-2006, 07:00 AM	#15
8cyVn4RJ Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	I just smile and say to myself "well if this person keeps banging their Shinai on the floor, I am going to be a better Kendoka than him sooner than I would have otherwise. As a matter of fact I am better already." With that thought in my mind I hold my kamae and my Shinai up with humility and self-respect. Not only is this paragraph directly self-contradictory, it's also pretty damn arrogant. Let's not forget that, as you say, we are 'junior' kendoka. If you think that hitting the floor with your shinai is going to cause it significant damage, then I guess you're not much one for do strikes either...
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