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ah I don't have a computer anymore now so I have been away for a while now....anyway

Counfound

Why do you practice kendo? Why couldn't I enjoy training the way I feel is the best way for me to do so. Why do I have to mimic old nanadan sensei and become like them when i'm only 21 years old!! It's nothing wrong to try to do a kendo like a nanadan but I don't want to do that, i'm not 60 years old yet! I have still 40 years to go into improving/changing my kendo. That kendo comes with experience and with wisdom that I don't have and don't believe I can or want to have just yet!

I think it's totaly wrong to supress too much the youth in our kendo. As Kuri was saying do you think there is only one way to do kendo? sigh...

Not even I elvolve as a person/kendoka but even kendo does!
Did you know that kendo has elvolved a lot since 40-50 years?
You know masahiro miyazaki champion of zennihon for a couple of time? well his kendo is a bit different from the classical kendo.
He uses his right hand to get a little bit more range and get over the men and shinai of his opponent (just to hit with the tips of the shinai). This week our sensei introduced/explained us to the way that miyazaki does his men-uchi. I was very impress to see that our sensei could accept that new way of doing men uchi. What I mean is if you are too close minded to see that there is more than 1 good way to do and enjoy kendo... well go back to playing ping pong.


As for saying that I will never get pass shodan...

I'm aware that in grade exams you have to show and big waza with strong seme. So i'm going to do that and I'm not going to do my crazy kendo at the exam. That "crazy" kendo, I do it only in my dojo with my friends. Also as I said before it's a way for me to improve myself and enjoy my kendo. In life there is time to be serious and time to be stupid, same goes for me in kendo.



maybe chanbara might be more his thing. This piss me off, what do you know? Kendo is, trust me.