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**Essefsbyday** · 03-05-2010, 02:42 AM

Ok only a couple:

I can't watch my favorite samurai films without thinking either:
a. That's a nice hakama and gi/kimono set I wonder if they do my size?
b. That wasn't very good technique!
c. I want a house and garden like that one that (usually) Toshiro Mifune is visiting. (He is usually sleeping rough or in some other hovel the rest of the film!)
I haven't got enough time to practice as much as I want
I spend most of the rest of the week thinking/reading/posting about JSA
I realise I will never "master" this, only advance a mm or so up the "grading wall" Peter West described.
Fed up of correcting colleagues who call iaido "eye a doh" or "sword fighting".
Saying "yes it's a fishing rod" when neighbours ask if I'm going fishing when putting my sword bag in the boot of the car.
Meeting and continuing to see 1-Cut!! (A MASSIVE negative . . in more ways than one!!! )

Ok only the last one a is real negative . . .

03-05-2010, 02:42 AM	#3
Essefsbyday Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 477 Senior Member	Ok only a couple: I can't watch my favorite samurai films without thinking either: a. That's a nice hakama and gi/kimono set I wonder if they do my size? b. That wasn't very good technique! c. I want a house and garden like that one that (usually) Toshiro Mifune is visiting. (He is usually sleeping rough or in some other hovel the rest of the film!) I haven't got enough time to practice as much as I want I spend most of the rest of the week thinking/reading/posting about JSA I realise I will never "master" this, only advance a mm or so up the "grading wall" Peter West described. Fed up of correcting colleagues who call iaido "eye a doh" or "sword fighting". Saying "yes it's a fishing rod" when neighbours ask if I'm going fishing when putting my sword bag in the boot of the car. Meeting and continuing to see 1-Cut!! (A MASSIVE negative . . in more ways than one!!! ) Ok only the last one a is real negative . . .
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