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Boston Iaido
14-09-2003, 03:55 AM
I have published my dojo's web site(http://www.bostoniaido.com). Please post your comments/suggestions on the topics and info. in this web site.
Best regards,
Boston Iaido
chidokan
15-09-2003, 03:42 AM
pretty good! more pictures scattered about would be nice. And please get rid of the word 'mission'. It reminds me too much of work and crazy american 'mission goals and statements'!!!AAAARGH!!
I think you need more names for ZNIR kata... aren't there more than that? Sure I did about 10/11 when I did a course with ZNIR once...

Tim Hamilton
Boston Iaido
15-09-2003, 09:22 AM
pretty good! more pictures scattered about would be nice. And please get rid of the word 'mission'. It reminds me too much of work and crazy american 'mission goals and statements'!!!AAAARGH!!
I think you need more names for ZNIR kata... aren't there more than that? Sure I did about 10/11 when I did a course with ZNIR once...

Tim Hamilton

Sensei Hamilton,
Thank you for your suggestions. I have changed the "mission" to "goals" and I have added the Chidokan dojo link to the Boston Iaido web site.
Best regards,
Cuong Nguyen
chidokan
16-09-2003, 04:57 AM
please...not "sensei"... I'm not THAT old yet!!! :old_man:
Although 'rottunpunk' may say different....
Thanks for adding my site in as well by the way...

Tim Hamilton
LNGUYEN
16-09-2003, 05:14 AM
Nice web site.

Chuc mung
Boston Iaido
16-09-2003, 06:52 AM
please...not "sensei"... I'm not THAT old yet!!! :old_man:
Although 'rottunpunk' may say different....
Thanks for adding my site in as well by the way...

Tim Hamilton

At the end of your Buletin page, you wrote "PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT"

My first teacher on Kenjutsu: Sensei John Hamilton (in Pittsburgh), he always teach "Practice make permanent", I asked him once, why permanent instead of perfect. He told me in martial arts, perfect may not exist. What is your opinion?
rottunpunk
16-09-2003, 05:14 PM
its true though tim you are old
your running out of hair and you like fishing
:p

maybe its a hamilton thing
the whole sayings n stuff

but i agree its hard to get perfection
but if you believe it doesnt exist how can you hope to strive for it...or something...

:p
rottunpunk
16-09-2003, 05:15 PM
oh 4got to say

i like your site mr Nguyen btw

:p
chidokan
17-09-2003, 02:12 AM
I like that, practise makes permanent! Think of your training as a bank account for the future, the more you put in now, the better it is for you when you are old....repetition eventually becomes habit and movement instinctive.
A little story on perfection....my teacher told me last year he finally felt he had done one waza correctly..... once. This was at the Kyoto taikai, just after his 84th birthday. Iwata sensei has been training for a long time, so I suppose one perfect waza in 70 years isn't too much to hope for is it???!!!

Of course rottunpunk will not live long enough to reach that age, she's bound to be rude to the wrong person eventually....

Tim Hamilton

p.s. you may like to add this link as well...its Nishimoto sensei's website, in Japanese of course, by one of his students.

http://www.151a.net/iai/
Siglith234
17-09-2003, 06:33 AM
Boston iaido i remeber you ive seen u several times at the acton dojo im the younger boy that started kendo a few weeks back
Boston Iaido
17-09-2003, 12:40 PM
Boston iaido i remeber you ive seen u several times at the acton dojo im the younger boy that started kendo a few weeks back

Would you like to come to my class on Wednesday?
R A Sosnowski
18-09-2003, 01:35 AM
Boston iaido i remeber you ive seen u several times at the acton dojo im the younger boy that started kendo a few weeks back

Kendo and Iaido are taught at the same location on Monday evenings -- I formerly belonged to Doshikai Kendo & Iaido Dojo, http://doshikai.tripod.com/, in Acton.

Boston Iaido meets Wednesday evenings.

HTH.
R A Sosnowski
18-09-2003, 01:41 AM
Kendo and Iaido are taught at the same location on Monday evenings -- I formerly belonged to Doshikai Kendo & Iaido Dojo, http://doshikai.tripod.com/, in Acton.

Boston Iaido meets Wednesday evenings.

HTH.
I just got an update on the web address for Doshikai: http://www.doshikai.org/
Siglith234
18-09-2003, 03:50 AM
Would you like to come to my class on Wednesday?


I would love to but i do not have a bokken and not much money to spend sorry
Jerry Wellbrock
23-09-2003, 05:23 AM
I have always heard it this way. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. I agree that practice makes permanent, so be very careful how you practice or what you make permanent may not be what you want and certainly not perfect. I agree that we will never achieve perfect, but we should approach ever practice as it is our only chance to make it perfect. Then this approach to practice can become permanent and that is a good thing! :old_man: