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**TOOGUEITEME** · 02-15-2011, 12:10 PM

I think that's an unfair accusation to make since we really have no idea what Yorick's ability is or even what is normal for shodans in his region. Yorick also didn't mention how often he trains, and that's a critical factor here.

Yorick, you mentioned that you recently feel more interested in competing. I think this might become good motivation to make you want to practice more. Personally, I always hated jigeiko. I'm bad at it, I don't understand what I'm doing and never win. I've been doing kendo for a little over 3 years now and only lately however, some ideas are starting to make sense to me. It makes me more eager to try jigeiko in our practices and to compete in tournaments.

I am naturally uncoordinated and tend to knock things over if I´m not careful.
My ambition is to train twice a week and for the past year I have been able to keep that up. Sandbagging: In a sense I may have been for periods before that - skip the details for now.

02-15-2011, 12:10 PM	#21
TOOGUEITEME Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 550 Senior Member	I think that's an unfair accusation to make since we really have no idea what Yorick's ability is or even what is normal for shodans in his region. Yorick also didn't mention how often he trains, and that's a critical factor here. Yorick, you mentioned that you recently feel more interested in competing. I think this might become good motivation to make you want to practice more. Personally, I always hated jigeiko. I'm bad at it, I don't understand what I'm doing and never win. I've been doing kendo for a little over 3 years now and only lately however, some ideas are starting to make sense to me. It makes me more eager to try jigeiko in our practices and to compete in tournaments. I am naturally uncoordinated and tend to knock things over if I´m not careful. My ambition is to train twice a week and for the past year I have been able to keep that up. Sandbagging: In a sense I may have been for periods before that - skip the details for now.
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