[HenriRow]

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.

[mazabotman]

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.

Listen to this:
1. Anyone can do anything with a shinai. Why would you be offended? Did he use yours? Did he do it inside a dojo?
2. Stop trying to be an elitist.

[Anakattawl]

Listen to this:
1. Anyone can do anything with a shinai. Why would you be offended? Did he use yours? Did he do it inside a dojo?
2. Stop trying to be an elitist.

i'm offended because I found it arrogant.

I hope you arent trying to antagonize me by calling me an elitist.

[Les Allen]

Listen to this:
1. Anyone can do anything with a shinai. Why would you be offended? Did he use yours? Did he do it inside a dojo?
2. Stop trying to be an elitist.

Your post makes no sense. There is absolutely no link between taking offense and being "elitist".

[eocavrWM]

Listen to this:
1. Anyone can do anything with a shinai. Why would you be offended? Did he use yours? Did he do it inside a dojo?
2. Stop trying to be an elitist.

1) Lets say you are a professional race car driver. And you see a yuppie buy a Porche GT and then you watch the guy try and park and see him hit the curb etc. Wouldn't you cringe that such a beautiful machine is in the hands of a complete twat.

2) Say, you spent a good deal of effort training in an art. Some twat comes along who says he does what you do but studied by watching a few ninja films. Wouldn't you be insulted? Its not being an elitist...its just watching idiots pretend or try to be something they are not.

[HonestSean]

I agree. When I see someone splitting concrete of something with a geological hammer I want to cry. THATS NOT WHAT ITS INTENDED FOR. Using it in that way shows incompetence, and thinking you are so awesome that you film it and put it on the net would be offensive to me.

Now excuse me while I get back to using the edge of my laptop to open beer bottles.

[LarryRda]

hehe nice one alison

the guy that invented those little paper sugar packets killed himself because no one opened them the right way

[Nfxutkpa]

Hahahaha!!!!

[WenPyclenoWex]

I do not get offended/insulteed by stuff like that. I worry about myself and my own training not what others do or say.

[effenseshoora]

2) Say, you spent a good deal of effort training in an art. Some twat comes along who says he does what you do but studied by watching a few ninja films. Wouldn't you be insulted? Its not being an elitist...its just watching idiots pretend or try to be something they are not.

So let him. Who cares. Is your ego really that fragile?

[NEWyear]

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.

[chechokancho]

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.

At least he didn't call it a katana and tell you he was studying Hiten-Mitsurugi Ryu, yeah?

[Shootohoist]

So let him. Who cares. Is your ego really that fragile?

I'm a delicate flower.

[FinanseMikky]

I'm a delicate flower. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2933066.stm

[beth]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2933066.stm

Lord of the Flies mate...hahaha

[gregmcal]

So let him. Who cares. Is your ego really that fragile?

Exactly. That's what I'm saying, watching a guy twirl a shinai shouldn't be a reason to get offended. If he started doing that in a dojo or if he insisted that he studies a kenjutsu, then get offended. It is being elitist, cause all he's doing is spinning the shinai. What if he was just doing wrist warm-ups?

[ValdisSeroff]

I agree. When I see someone splitting concrete of something with a geological hammer I want to cry. THATS NOT WHAT ITS INTENDED FOR. Using it in that way shows incompetence, and thinking you are so awesome that you film it and put it on the net would be offensive to me.

Now excuse me while I get back to using the edge of my laptop to open beer bottles.

Because none of us here have ever used a tool for something other than it's original use? A shinai, to most people, is a stick. To him, he was twirling a stick much like you might use a pin to take a splinter out. The shinai was his best idea, maybe because of weight or aesthetics, for his twirly excercise. To me, this is no different from:
1. Kendoka's using golf bags for shinai carrying case.
2. Using tires for target dummy.
3. Using a basketball gym for practice (still talking about kendo).
4. Using chopsticks to scratch face with while men is on.
....and the list continues.

Comparing the use of a shinai as a stick and opening beer bottles with a laptop is bit too much.

[Coellacag]

1. Kendoka's using golf bags for shinai carrying case.
2. Using tires for target dummy.
3. Using a basketball gym for practice (still talking about kendo).
4. Using chopsticks to scratch face with while men is on.
....and the list continues.
.

Hey! No fair!



LOL

[Blelidupgerie]

I agree. When I see someone splitting concrete of something with a geological hammer I want to cry. THATS NOT WHAT ITS INTENDED FOR. Using it in that way shows incompetence, and thinking you are so awesome that you film it and put it on the net would be offensive to me.

Now excuse me while I get back to using the edge of my laptop to open beer bottles.

Actually, back in the days of prospecting for pelagic greensands and manganese nodules - we'd (quite competently) open the beers with the rock hammer. Then, we'd launch SCUBA cylinders off the boat with a sledge hammer.

Ah, "science"...

[wowwieholmes]

hehehe, not much has changed!! And yes, Ive seen people use laptops and whatever for heaps of different things. Squashing bugs is my favourite.

I personally find a video of someone twirling a shinai not offensive, but I can understand how someone could. But I also think people who post videos of themselves doing this sort of stuff should expect others to take the piss.