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**NEWyear** · 08-16-2006, 05:41 AM

I just wanted to post to say that I saw some guy with an afro twirling around a shinai like a baton. the shinai looked like a 37 or 36.

It kinda offended me, I have to say.

I had a day like that a bit ago shortly after i started kendo.

So i'm heading up to the coffee shop to get my daily fix.. when i see some older teen/early 20's guy walking up the street with a bokken. I fall instep behind him thinking, "hey.. there's someone from class i haven't met before, he must be one of the iaido guys."

And what does he do? walks into my coffee shop ahead of me. Great! So i get in line behind him and ask, "Iaido?"

blink blink

I gesture at his sword... "oh.. no.. it's a bokken"

/sigh

"No.. do you do Iaido? I don't recognize you from kendo class" i clarify.

"um.. no" he says, "this is just for the walk home."

I've called it my first real ninja siting since then.

08-16-2006, 05:41 AM	#11
NEWyear Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 569 Senior Member	I just wanted to post to say that I saw some guy with an afro twirling around a shinai like a baton. the shinai looked like a 37 or 36. It kinda offended me, I have to say. I had a day like that a bit ago shortly after i started kendo. So i'm heading up to the coffee shop to get my daily fix.. when i see some older teen/early 20's guy walking up the street with a bokken. I fall instep behind him thinking, "hey.. there's someone from class i haven't met before, he must be one of the iaido guys." And what does he do? walks into my coffee shop ahead of me. Great! So i get in line behind him and ask, "Iaido?" blink blink I gesture at his sword... "oh.. no.. it's a bokken" /sigh "No.. do you do Iaido? I don't recognize you from kendo class" i clarify. "um.. no" he says, "this is just for the walk home." I've called it my first real ninja siting since then.
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