[slimsex]

Yes I agree, I'm pretty sure it would improve faster if I would put my energy into doing "pure kendo". But to tell you the truth I find it personaly boring to do that kind of kendo right now. I really want to make different steps in my kendo "career".

I think my kendo will eventualy mature when I will see by myself by experimenting that I'm doing the wrong things.

However, I just want to point out, even if I'm saying I want to use crazy techniques , i am a strong believer that having a good foward men uchi helps a lot in kendo. Since most of the other techniques use the same motion (of going foward lool).

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hm also not too long ago I was actually doing a more straight kind of kendo. It was more clear and of less useless movements, more slow paced. I was winning most of my matches and shiai. But the problem is that I became lazy and wasn't attacking as much anymore. I was also getting scared of getting ippon from someone and was caring too much about ippon during jikeiko. I felt I couldn't improve by being that way and holding back and not attacking during jikeiko (I was pissed at myself!). That's why now i'm saying I want to do a more active and agressive kendo, a kendo without as much preparation (seme) but just keep hiting the targets when they are slighty open. A little like kakari keiko. So one of the reason why I don't want to do "pure kendo" yet, is because when I do it I care too much about ippon. When you go fast and do techniques that are not always ippon "giver" you don't have time to care as much about scoring or geting 1 ippon against you.

That's the way I see that I can improve my kendo for now.

Still straight and pure kendo will always be 100% more efficient in shiai.

Maybe I'm doing it all wrong lol