Bogu

meh, tonight was a bit crappy...one of those nights when i new it would be before i even left the house...
lots of dodgy men, all over the place..and i just couldn't hit kote to save myself...
still don't know if i'm just being paranoid about sensei not saying anything to me after i hit him...
oh, and he made us do men while each person took a turn to count to 10...totally killed me...
so yeah, still feeling down...
quick quote from noma hisashi sensei:

Moreover, the one thing that is especially important for the shugyosha, or trainee, to keep in mind is never give up or quit Shugyo During the course of Shugyo training one develops and suffers from many doubts and dilemmas and because of these ones zeal for training disintegrates. However it is only by resisting the urge to quit and carry on that such problems that do arise will eventually solve themselves and without fail ones vision will become clearer.

believing that is all that's keeping me going just now (and having spent shitloads on dogi...)

on the brighter side...sensei said we're all doing so well they're not doing a bogu test (cept for Men)...so by mid-april we'll be wearing tare, kote and do...:D

just need to find money to buy them now...

Kata Videos

I think (if it works...) this should be a video of kata...always nice...

Kata

did kata for the first time tonight...it was fun...didn't sweat nearly as much, so not as blue as usual! and it doesn't hurt!
was doing it with a little 12 y.o. girl who didn't quite seem to get the whole kendo thing...which got annoying...but i can't claim to be much better....

Kiaaaai

i think i really understood kiai tonight...basically kept shouting until i couldn't do it anymore, then it just seemed to come out of nowhere...i gave myself a fright...it helps though...
my legs are aching, as ever...
did lots of men, with seme (??)...did men against sensei and another bloke in armour...he didn't say anything to me when i was doing it, but he did to other people...i'm not sure if that means it was good, or just too bad to bother giving tips on...the latter's quite possible and i'd doubt it was the former...
i donno...apart from that i guess it was ok...
i can't see myself passing the bogu exam later this month though...