Your Sensei’s one liner…

[kawa]

Been to various Dojo, and every Sensei have its one liner or “kun”. Tell us what is your Dojo’s favored line.


Here a few..

“Don’t think too much!"

”When you see it, it’s too late"

”Just go with your intuition”

“Learn your Basic waza well, techniques change over time because YOU change. Basic waza doesn’t”

[Sir Percy]

"Trust the force, Luke!"

[Winter_Wolf]

"practice, practice, practice!"

[roar]

Kendo is easy
Just lift the shinai up, and put it down
But you have to know WHEN

[Nishi]

"Attendence is voluntary, compliance while here is mandatory"

[sminki]

"do it this way. isn't it ea-sy?"

"practice more basic" (answer to any kendo question)

"you just go seeeeuuuuuk" (answer to footwork and/or seme questions)

[roar]

1 print "NO NO NO Please do it again. One more time."
2 goto 1

[Karaken]

" See this? Bam ! That's how you do it "
"Don't go BAM, BAM, BAM - just BAM!"
"Don't move your head, step aside"

Oh yes and "Keep the Center - do not give it up!"

Center - Yes

[kawa]

Karaken, During any shiai...only thing I have back of my mind is "KEEP THE CENTER” :) I think, no matter how strong your opponent is.. If you don’t move, it is very difficult for them to attack.

[junkyman]

What my sensei always says when one someone wears bogu for the first time . . . .

"His new name is pinata boy"

"Oh look, a smurf"

[Charlie]

The late Izui-sensei: "May I make a suggestion?"

[Neil Gendzwill]

"Kendo is not about killing people." - Miyaoka-sensei

[ben]

"Kendo is a long life." Nagae sensei

[M.K. Kawai]

"Your Kote is open...."

BAMM!

"Your Kote is still open..."

BAMM!

:D

MKK

[JSchmidt]

When I asked prior to my grading if there's was any specifc weakness I should work on:

"Practice everything!"

Jakob

[kendomushi]

When talking about blisters on my hand when first starting kendo, sensei asked which hand. I told him the left. His reply...

"left is good, that is kendo. If you said right, that's not kendo, you just need a girl friend very badly."

[LadyGinevra73]

"if you want, you can do it !"
"one more time"

[Paburo]

'mou chotto hayaku!'

(a bit faster!)

and i've been told twice in jigeiko

'no tienes ni puta idea!'

which translates something like, 'you don't have a f*cking clue!'


very inspiring :D

[kawa]

Last night......from my Sempei...


"If you think you can...you are half way there!!"

[Hingus]

"MEN! Watch the maai!"

[Ben F.]

"Whoosh is good."

-Master Ralph Truesdell

[stinkyKote]

"hey, I thought you quit?"

[iwatekenshi]

This was said last night at practice when doing kihon-uchi.

"Cut from your heart, not with you hands."

[officer_fujita]

"Study the basics well for beautiful kendo" - Tanaka-sensei

"Onajiku!" - Takimoto-sensei

[ken to kokoro]

"If you dont try, nothing will happen"

[KeijockMuniz]

"Kendo is life."

[D'Artagnan]

"Tonight I am going to introduce you to your {names part of body}"

[emitbrownne]

Originally posted by kendomushi
When talking about blisters on my hand when first starting kendo, sensei asked which hand. I told him the left. His reply...

"left is good, that is kendo. If you said right, that's not kendo, you just need a girl friend very badly."

Absolutely brilliant :D :D :D

[D'Artagnan]

He also said just before suburi at the last training

"welcome to hell..."

oh yes and a bit later :-

"50 Choyaku Suburi..... One breath!!!"

[MACSTA]

Hey D'Artagnan,
thats sounds more like an intro to kendo boot camp than your normal kendo training.:eek:

[D'Artagnan]

nah he's cool really

he just likes to maku us sweat from time to time.

[KhawMengLee]

"No! Do it again!"

or

"Debana chin chin!":eek:

[Nishi]

Originally posted by D'Artagnan
He also said just before suburi at the last training

"welcome to hell..."

oh yes and a bit later :-

"50 Choyaku Suburi..... One breath!!!"

Is true, i was there!! It was so bloody hot that night and class went somthing like.....REI.......welcome to hell!!!!!! Then there was evil suburi, and then even more sadistic kihon at kakari-geiko speed, and then jigeiko....this went on for two hours with 120 second break in the middle. His classes are becoming well known for being extreme work outs, just ask the 4 students that collapsed:ko: In defence of Sensei Norse he is satisfied with effort and never asks the impossible.....he just assumes everything is possible!

[D'Artagnan]

Here Here!!

Besides if class was easy i don't think i'd like it

A

[Rawoo]

"he is a gay, get him boys"
"that kind of kendo is wanker's kendo"

[kawa]

"he is a gay, get him boys" ---------- your Sensei actully says that??!! lol

[Nishi]

I alomost forgot.....We have a Dutch sensie as well, and his english is very good but he misses small points from time to time...his one liner always kills me.....

"Can everybody get into couples of three"

The Dutch are more liberated than us....:D

[Rawoo]

Na just made it up lol
My sensei emphasized on foot work a lot and the body.
Cant remember what he actually said but the usual stuff everytime.
ye he did tell one of the senior player to close his eyes while playing with him. lol

[Old Warrior]

"Tooooo Haarddddd"

[MadMartigan]

“Louder kiai…..this is a kendo dojo, not a library”

[aru-ma]

Originally posted by MadMartigan
Louder kiai..this is a kendo dojo, not a library

that is good, I found myself telling my kohai to do the same thing.

[Antonin]

I got:
"your kendo looks beautiful, but it's not very efficient"
and along the same lines:
"your gendo looks realy good as long as you don't move"
Both I took as compliments...
A.

[KhawMengLee]

Who said that? someone at Wakaba or Hizen?

[Hongsermeier]

I got a comment on my first trip to the dojo in Japan. Sensei told my father in law.
"When I first walk in and see him(me), I thought maybe shodan or nidan. Then he start to practice and I think.....no dan...kyu"
I thought this was a compliment since I was 4 kyu at the time. :cross_eye

[kancho]

My sister recently started kendo and she did a Kote strike that hit the upper arm of a person wearing armour. He said "Don't Worry, it is not your arm". I found that to be quite funny.

[Geophizz]

"Sword, not club!"

[srt]

"Swing Biiiig!"

"Keep swinging big, eventually your swing will become faster and smaller. Then you will have beautiful kendo."

"But first . . . Swing Big!"

srt

[Kiki]

"No no no no nooooo. One more time......much better"
*
"Like this. Natural"
*
"That's NOT seme!"

[KATSUJIN]

for me......."you have chicken heart........kakari-geiko 10mins!!!!"
it is always the case.....that is when I queue up for the sensei.....but he has taught alot for the past one year.....so i guess the knowledge I receive cancels out the pain and suffering.....:(

[lewis]

"Attack, attack, attack. First ten years. Attack, attack, attack. Then if attack good, you can try a block."

[nollaig]

Yanai-sensei
"Patience,patience, wait.........Keep maai then seme... then cut"

Also
"Yes, another beer please"

[MadMartigan]

"if everyone can do a really nice men cut, I am buying the drinks for everybody"

hmmm...only joking with that one, but it would be nice though. :D

[TKO]

"If you want to block, first learn how to get hit properly"Sensei Lin of Princeton University

[Jklak]

You use too much your right arm! I have told you about this before. I show, it feels like this, BAM!....auchhh (me). Do you understand like this, BAM BAM BAM....aghhh (me again and again)...

[Koori]

I was on the floor in pain and sensei walked up to me and bent over and said, "You Ok, Now get up and strike me."

-Koori
-

[Chook]

My sensei's one liner:
"You don't just get fast. Practise is the key. Through practise comes technique, through technique comes speed."

[Danny Boy]

"You're all worthless and weak....now drop down and give me 20"

[TKO]

To train your heart, do more summer kendo

[Chook]

I was talking to a beginner tonight at training about some things to focus on and I almost stopped halfway through because I almost sounded like my sensei - I know it's off topic but I find it kind of good that his teaching rubs off on us so much. I wonder if what I'm showing the other students sticks in their minds to a degree..

[swrdply400mrela]

"Swing big"

"Attack with courage"

[Alicia]

"HaHaHa"-evil chuckle :evil:
and
"if this is hard, you havent been practising enough" (we are rolling around in agony going "we know, dont rub it in") but also many encouraging statements come such as "well done" and "only one more"

[Isak]

"Finger lost, grip difficult, eh?" Hirakawa-sensei, kyoshi hachi dan, at seminar this weekend in malmoe, Sweden on the topic of cuts that hit the fingers. I never got if it was a bad thing or a good thing though, he laghued a lot saying it.

[kawa]

Before every Taikai My Sempei would reminds us…

“Remember your technique is dead, but your opponent is alive”
– meaning never relies on your technique, and always readies to adapt to your opponent.

[KhawMengLee]

"Finger lost, grip difficult, eh?" Hirakawa-sensei, kyoshi hachi dan, at seminar this weekend in malmoe, Sweden on the topic of cuts that hit the fingers. I never got if it was a bad thing or a good thing though, he laghued a lot saying it.


Haha...Hirakawa Sensei is a great guy! He was teaching us at the Edinburgh Seminar(Post WKC). He's got a great(if not a bit twisted :silly: ) sense of humour...his famous debana chin chin:eek: still brings on a chuckle

[Yoshito]

"We need to change our Sunday’s Keigo to a earlier time so everyone can enjoy NFL Sunday”…. GO 49ers!!!!

[T.Lee]

"I came to drink your beer and dance with your women."

[Paikea]

At least for me it's "Jeez...what the hell was THAT?"

Hint: He has the whistle.

[yamaguchi]

Don't worry about ending your life in this Dojo today, just worry about tommorow's Kendo practice.

Ichikawa-Sensei.

[Niels]

"Make ippon,every time"

[Lloromannic]

"if we get charged for that you will pay for it " sensei to me after I fell down and made a dent on the floor with the mengane. I tripped on a (as of then unnoticed) small puddle of blood from my foot.

"Since it's your birthday you will get special treatment!" Then I got treated to a special kind of shiai where I had to fight ippon-shobu with everyone. But it didn't matter how many points were scored on me, the match wasn't over until I scored, or five minutes passed, then I would do sonkyo with my opponent and at the same time with the next person and have an ippon shobu with him. When I had fought everyone I did kirikaeshi, 19 men going forward and 20 going backwards.

[Kendo-Militia]

I'd like to park my Zoris under her bed.

[misterkurukuru]

Ahhahahaha!!!


"im here to chew bubble gum and kisk ass...and i am all out of bubblegum!"

[kendokamax]

"I will teach you how to smoke cigarette tomorrow"

[Cheese_Man]

"Theres nothing magical, its just physics..."

[Skilgannon]

When asking what I should do to have a chance in my first ever taikai, the answer was simply: "hit them on the head!"

[Knicky]

Sensei: "What do I always say?"
Kenshi: "Posture will take you farther in kendo than anything else"

[nodachi]

"Kendo is about reading your opponents heart..."

[Eiliries]

"You have much to learn, young Grasshopper."

[ben spain]

I often get "What the hell are you doing?" - and Sensei actually wants an answer (to which I generaly look at the floor and mutter some pathetic excuse about my feet no doing as they are told)

[Infinity]

"You try it now"

"Play it by ear" (i am led to beleive that the japanese version of this phrase has much more impact)

"relax...."

"swing up...swing down"

[Nanbanjin]

"You try it now"

"Play it by ear" (i am led to beleive that the japanese version of this phrase has much more impact)

"relax...."

"swing up...swing down"

I knew we were from the same club even before I saw your location.

How about...

"One beat"

"Sink or swim"

"Application waza"

Or how about just standing there with his head tilted to one side looking somewhat perplexed.

And "Swing up, swing down" is often followed by "Period".

[Lucien]

To much groaning and do-you-think-he's-seriousing: 'We will do another 50 hayasuburi. With a smile.'

[Infinity]

I knew we were from the same club even before I saw your location.

How about...

"One beat"

"Sink or swim"

"Application waza"

Or how about just standing there with his head tilted to one side looking somewhat perplexed.

And "Swing up, swing down" is often followed by "Period".i love our dojo. lmao

[Andoru]

"Kendo is infinite"

"Extend your ki beyond your opponent"

"There is never enough zanshin"

[Nanbanjin]

"Kendo is infinite"

"Extend your ki beyond your opponent"

"There is never enough zanshin"

Hahaha. It doesn't really stop at just one line but does it!
Not a criticism, just an observiation. My poor knees were screaming in agony.

[Wifenmummy]

my sensai is imaginary... he looks like sun ce... he just keeps repeating "dont give up!"
lol! cant get kung pow outta my head... lol! 'if u have a ass then i will kick it..'

[Navyguy]

"...It's not that tough, it's just a wee stick..."

Bill Gill Head Instructor

[Koori]

"To do Kendo right it must me beautiful" - Kan sensei

~Koori

[nodachi]

I like that last one.

<files away in mental file cabinet>

[Koori]

Oops guys. I had a typo. But you got the meaning ;)
"me"= "be"

~Koori

[josieposey]

Josie, you have sound mind...what sound and whose mind, I dunno- my sensei

[Fonsz]

Foundashion most impohrtant! (With a Japanese accent)
After that I had to practice men with a bokuto on a car tire for the rest of the practice session.
After a few weeks he told me that in the old days if you got lucky you had to do this for just a year.
:old_man:

[Beckmeisterrr]

Sensei Ramon Lawrence (Chairman of Australian Kendo Renmei) says about Seitei Iaido, "You are water running down a stream, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but always flowing."

Oh, and on Iaido, Jodo and Kendo, "Watch your centre line!"

[gsx1100s]

My Sensei once said : "I'm sure your opponent would have died in a few years from tetanus with that cut" ( with a smile on his face :) ).


cheers Michael
P.S. Hey Beckmeisterrr we had the honour of having Sensei Ramon Lawrence Visit our Dojo. He is amazing . His discussion and training in Iaido gives you a whole new outlook and so much inspiration.

[Lloromannic]

This was yesterday:

"OY! Stop flirting it's getting late!"

Directed to me and his daughter after practice. There was much distress in her mother and my mother's face. I just froze up for a moment wondering if he was seriously thinking I was flirting with his 12 year old daughter.

Thankfully he wasn't.

[Togashi Yokuni]

Here's one...

It was after practise, and we were lining up to bow to the sensei. The head sensei was explaining to the guy in front of me the correct way to execute the waza that he (the student) was trying to execute on sensei during ji-keiko. After sensei gave his explanation, he paused and said:

"But don't do that on me, cause I'm too fast!"

Then he proceeds to laugh.

Some times these old Japanese men have a warped sense of humor, don't you think? :wink:

[TKO]

"he who say is a Master, is not"

[Solinde]

"If it's not hurting, your doing it the wrong way."

[ryuu]

"Hmph". That's really about as much as he ever says

[Anjin-san]

"To do Kendo right it must me beautiful" - Kan sensei

~Koori

Kan Sensei from detroit? He said the exact same thing to me a few weeks ago when he was visiting London. That and 'don't be scared of my kensen'.

[Sandman]

"he who say is a Master, is not"
Yeah my sensei said that to us a few times as well. of course it wasn't an exact quote that you said. But it was the same meaning. As far as what he tells us alot is how your center is very imported (and it is) . There are other things he says.

[neko kenshi]

Funny story, I had a sensei talking to me and a few other beginners he was describing the way japanese archers do shoot, and then, completely seriously he said, "and after they realease the arrow they run down the feild and stick it where they want it to go, no they don't, because that's stupid!" he explained that we were guiding our hits down to land on the men, when we should be lifting them to where they need to be and releasing them straight down for a good men. It was funny because he acted all serious with it, it was a great analogy though.

[neko kenshi]

And from a previous head sensei (Stroud Sensei)

Train hard and have fun.

[Sandman]

One other saying he says . I think everyone knows it(or at least I've heard it at other places) is "cry in the dojo laugh on the battle field". He really likes that saying.

[Aurélien]

One of our sempai favourite closing liner just before the end of practice:

"Today, you just added one more layer on your kendo sandwich."

[Nokori 3byo]

All from my iaido sensei:

"人間とは、ロボットではない！": "A human being is not a robot!"

"ウィリアムはソーシャルダンスが上手かもしれない！　ハハハ" "I bet you're a good dancer, but... Hahaha!"

And, somewhat more devastatingly:

"落ち！" "Fail!" (While holding a stopwatch reading 6:07 two centimetres from my face).

"技を直さなければ、２段はまただめだよ！" "If you don't clean your technique up, you'll fail ２ dan again!"

[The great I AM]

How about:

"Why dig up dead 3 year old threads?"

Aaaaah, sensei. A classic!

[kensenbatusaii]

How about:

"Why dig up dead 3 year old threads?"

Aaaaah, sensei. A classic!


How about:

"Because sensei never runs out of one liners"

" Old sensei goes and new sensei is born"

" One day i won't be ashamed to dig up this thread again and post your one liner too!"


:chinese::chinese::chinese:

[Maku-san]

How about:

"Because sensei never runs out of one liners"

" Old sensei goes and new sensei is born"

" One day i won't be ashamed to dig up this thread again and post your one liner too!"


:chinese::chinese::chinese:

How about: "Old sensei never die, they just go to Jodan". :rambo:

[Martch]

A Fujii sensei classic -

"Before you go out there, reach inside your hakama and pull your balls down"

[chidokan]

a new one of mine

"It would be better if you tried to do the same waza as everyone else. Oh. You are..."

almost beats my

"hhhmmmm....... interesting."

[Gessho]

"I can't teach you...you have to figure it out yourself."

[atgm]

"massugu!" ("straight!" -- He says this a lot whether it's about kendo, life, work or anything else.)
"machigae wa hazukashii koto DE WA NAI" ("Mistakes are NOT embarrassing things")
"jishin wo motte!" ("Have confidence!")

[chidokan]

I couldn't take any more of this guy twirling his bokken around like a cheerleader's baton at a beginners seminar I was running... I asked him if his last sword instructor was Conan the barbarian. He stopped it.
Telling him he wouldnt be able to block in time if he was doing that whilst I cut at him also probably helped.:laugh:

[willszenith]

my sensei just threatens to send me to this guys dojo...http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eOc_W0cuhMk

[bobdonny]

We are not here to teach.... ye are here to learn.

[Abramo]

my sensei just threatens to send me to this guys dojo...http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eOc_W0cuhMk

Second offenders get sent to this one here then?

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=8FA4NaSYVhQ&feature=related

Well, at least they put their pants on right hehe.

[bravo22]

*whacks* run faster!

[hugo]

"We are not in Japan."

I.e., someone asks "well, I saw that in Japan some people can test for ikkyu in a year."

"We are not in Japan."

Or, a strangely effective way of forcing students to use real pressure instead of just wobbling their tip around...

"Stop all that fancy shit and just hit me."

[Berserker]

Famous words when the beginners line up to practise waza: "Next lady for a shave"

And then there is the infamous: " What was that?? Kendo? NO!!!" :laugh:

[Newbie]

My old kendo sensei during practise for shiai:

"All the winners over here and all the lo... people who came second over there"

[Fonsz]

Well done very good! Last time you guys were crap but today you're all just very bad......!:puzzled::ermm:

[hl1978]

"If you want self defense, go study colt .45"

[Nkd666]

After my Shodan grading sensei said "It's not about doing it on the day, it's about doing it every day", and I've heard him say it a number of other times since. It's stuck with me, and the more I think about it the truer it is.

My other favorite was Sumi Sensei's catchphrase at the Kodokan seminar last summer...... Everything he demonstrated was followed by......

"Now you do it..... 1000 times":cool2:

[ghostdancer]

for iai

try and do the same as the rest of us, please tony
or
try and keep up tony

[Reiver]

Nice Kata, made it up yourself?

[chidokan]

this time, try cutting with the EDGE of the blade, not the back....

[Omnis]

I usually hear the following:

"Big swing."
"It's the swing."

and, of course, "Follow through!"

[MikeH]

While teaching us to bow properly Yamazaki sensei once said "When you bow please do not stick out chin, you are not turtle"

Mike

[JoDuncan]

While teaching us to bow properly Yamazaki sensei once said "When you bow please do not stick out chin, you are not turtle"

Mike

I knew you'd say that one! :)

Either that or.

Sensei in chudan "This kendo"
Sensei somewhere halfway between chudan and hasso "This Starwars"

:)

[Jung_Yul]

I knew you'd say that one! :)

Either that or.

Sensei in chudan "This kendo"
Sensei somewhere halfway between chudan and hasso "This Starwars"

:)

That is awesome! I love it.

Unfortunately, "you must spread rep... blah, blah..."

[ghostdancer]

I knew you'd say that one! :)

Either that or.

Sensei in chudan "This kendo"
Sensei somewhere halfway between chudan and hasso "This Starwars"

:)

+ rep fpr you, cant give it to your sensei !!

[Reiver]

I remember when I was 1st kyu Iaido, and I had just performed nukitsuke in Morote Tsuki, when I heard Jock Hopson (7th dan) whisper in my ear, "That's very nice for a kyu grade, but you want to be better than that, don't you?"

[Dozer]

"HaHaHa"-evil chuckle :evil:
and
"if this is hard, you havent been practising enough" (we are rolling around in agony going "we know, dont rub it in") but also many encouraging statements come such as "well done" and "only one more"

and how about his " What you don't sweat out when you are young turns into tears when your old" or "we'll just do five more minutes as there are others waiting to use the Doj (half an hour later we leave the floor)"

[Charles Lockhar]

"Wow, you really ARE your own worst enemy..."

I'd just tripped on my hakama and taken a header into the floor.

-Charles

[Naginatagirl]

A few years ago, after keiko, sensei gave me some advice. He looked at me so seriously and said only, "Do more men."

I never forgot that advice lol

Oh, but one I heard at my very first seminar: "To make your kendo effective, you must first make it beautiful."

And one I heard after I lost my first shiai match (just to confuse me as a beginner...right?), "What's the point of pretty kendo if you don't win?" That was memorable -_-;;

[Gideon]

An encouraging one I had after a particularly frustrating keiko...

"Step by step."

[Hanmi]

Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!.....

(an hour later, still)....Kirakaeshi!... Rotate!

Then:

Ok, let's start Kihon: MEN-go-ho!...BIG MEN, stretch your arms! ...

.

[Jung_Yul]

A few years ago, after keiko, sensei gave me some advice. He looked at me so seriously and said only, "Do more men."

I never forgot that advice lol



Fantastic! +rep to you!

[voidsamurai]

Masako Ohmine sensei: The practice does not make the perfection, makes the consistency.

[JByrd]

"The hardest part about Kendo is going to the dojo." - Ken Takeno

[Koban]

"move.. like this, like um.. a mobile phone, yeah buzz." (tryin to explain the type of footwork he does in shiai.) Takenaga.

[Ookami7]

Not budo related, but my one liners for teaching are: look and listen / 見てください聞ってください　（thats if I`ve got this spelled right) and ...... ie dot dot dot.
Kids love it, and are often repeated, that and my morning greeting lol

[Karaken]

"The hardest part about Kendo is going to the dojo." - Ken Takeno So True.. More than ever.

[ShadowlessSword]

this isnt exactly a saying my sensei says but, a saying I made and think to myself

"If you think long, you think wrong"

[hathandir]

*Doing an excercize with a common mistake he sees* "This is not kendo. This is easy, I can do this one-thousand time. I can do this ten-thousand time." *does it right* "This is kendo."

[still learning]

One of my own - - which has become something of a club motto;

If you had time to parry.........
.......... you had time to cut!

Simply..... do not block - -- MOVE!

[Orophil]

Sensei of Dojo that organises the annual dutch student kendo championship:
Up, down,go, next!

They got it on a t-shirt with stickmen

My own sensei: Taiso! nog een keer! (Taiso Again!), then after the exercise Taiso again! then repeat, repeat and so on and so forth.

and when you do something wrong: What did you do wrong? and then she waits until you figure it out. When you take to long she asks one of the others to recieves and she shows what you do.

grtz Mathijs

[still learning]

then she waits until you figure it out. When you take to long she asks one of the others to recieves and she shows what you do.

Could this be the lovely I-bon Jordan?

[b8amack]

One of my own - - which has become something of a club motto;

If you had time to parry.........
.......... you had time to cut!

Isn't that from the McDonald's work ethos? Time to lean, time to clean and all that?

[NGeorge]

"Pain is the sensation of weakness leaving your body"
"Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect"

Man, I've been away too long. Can't wait to get back to class.

[758jo]

正しさは　強いです。-　勝股先生、八段藩士
Correct is stong. -Katsumata-sensei, Hachidan Hanshi

[Evelien]

"If you do kendo the right way, you won't get tired"

Well, I'm obviously not doing it the right way then.

[Kapplow]

"If you cut dou like that, maybe you watch too much chanbara!"
-sensei
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Sensei: "You're Kendo reflects your daily life."

Kapplow: "What? It sounded like you said your Kendo reflects your lady life!?"

Sensei: "No, daily life. Well, maybe it reflects your lady life too! HAHAHA!"

[David G]

Ok just been out for a meal with the family. Sitting waiting for dessert and start reading the label on my bottle of water:

"ABBEY WELL Natural Mineral Water fell as rain or snow before the age of pollution. Every drop of ABBEY WELL® has been naturally filtered through water bearing white sandstone for at least 3000 years. Today, it is still being bottled from a single underground source deep in the Northumbrian hills just as it has always been done."

At least 3000 years old . .

Why does it now have a "sell-by" date of just a few months from now?!

Made me laugh . . . :D

[ender84567]

all pain is just a slice of kendo taken out of context.

[Bailemor]

Heard at a Iaido seminar very recently by a high ranking Iaido-ka describing the feeling in Mae:

"you dont want to go down and come shooting out too soon...."

I have never seen anyone look so bright red..

[ScottUK]

Heard at a Iaido seminar very recently by a high ranking Iaido-ka describing the feeling in Mae:

"you dont want to go down and come shooting out too soon...."

I have never seen anyone look so bright red..Hehe I know a high-ranking iaidoka who sometimes makes slips of the tongue. I bet we are thinking of the same person! :D

[dwez]

After a brief demonstaration of the first four 'new' kata and the beginners set off -

"no, no, no, I was just showing you the technique, not what to do."

It seemed funnier at the time...

[Oroshi]

"Stop. No good. 柔らかく."

I heard this a lot this weekend.