Introducing myself

[Ratgax]

Konnichiwa!

I've been here for some time, reading the forum and after some dificult search I've found a place to get introduced in Kendo. I will go on my first training today, so I'm really excited.

I'm 32 y.o. from Barcelona (well, a town near Barcelona) Spain, so my english is not good, I hope you'll excuse my bad grammar.

Also, I'm trying to learn some japanese, I've started studiyng a week ago, so I barely know the hiragana.

Anyways I just wanted to say "Hello" to the nice comunity of Kendokas whom I've been reading on the forums. I'll try to be participative, but for now my knowledge of kendo is little, so I have not too much to bring to the forum.

Ganbatte!

[LNGUYEN]

Welcome to the board Ratgax. Don't worry about your English, as long as we can read, you are doing fine. Warning, don't get hooked to the forum like us do :smiley:

[xvikingx]

Welcome! youkoso!

[Kaoru]

Hi Ratgax,

Hajimemashite! Welcome to the forum. You'll learn a lot here. Don't worry about the English, neh?(Like what Lnguyen says) I hope you enjoyed your first practice!

Kaoru

[Ratgax]

Thanks a lot for the welcome, I really appreciate.

I'm about to leave to my fist training session and I'm really excited about it :puzzled:

I have a 2 hours trip to the Dojo, but I think it's worth the time, I'll tell you how it went tomorrow

[Tato]

Thanks a lot for the welcome, I really appreciate.

I'm about to leave to my fist training session and I'm really excited about it :puzzled:

I have a 2 hours trip to the Dojo, but I think it's worth the time, I'll tell you how it went tomorrow

Hi RatGax

Nice to see someone from Barna here, I guess that you will go to a dojo where you will meet someone of the following senseis: O.Serrano, Yumiba, Morita or Kimura, all of them do great kendo, so you will enjoy it. (I recived a beating from three out of four at the last seminar in Vitoria, I'm just a brand new 2nd Kyu, that was great).

Wellcome, you will enjoy it.

Please, tell them hello from Madrid.

(Como verás, el idioma aquí es el Inglés, y yo tampoco lo manejo demasiado bien, pero lo importante es entenderse, un cordial saludo).

[kendomushi]

Welcome to our world Ratgax.

Don't worry about your English, or about having limited knowledge. New blood prompts new questions and thoughts and makes us all better.

Hope you enjoy our first keiko.

[Kiki]

Welcome Ratgax. Looking forward to hearing how your first keiko went.
Your english is pretty darn good so don't be shy.
:)

[m_french]

Ratgax- you ever go to "Ebuli"or "el roco de con fables"?

[Ratgax]

Well, thanks again for the welcome, it makes me feel great.

Yesterday I went on my first training sesion... and it was terrible!.

My knee resisted for 30 minutes, then after warm up I was trying to catch my breath, I almost lost consciuousnes, so It went BAD. I feel so ashamed now... I had to leave the dojo and felt really bad, just as I feel now.

I dont know if someone else has experienced a situation like this one, but it's really disencouraging. Yesterday as I leaved I thought " no more, I cant try again, I'm only loosing my time and my sensei time" . Now I see things somewhat diferent... I will try my best tomorrow, I'll go train even if I have to glue my knee to my leg. I'll go and I'll try hard again just to reach some form of redemption. I need to do just to clean the shame.

So... thanks, was a terrible day, but to be honest I think that knowledge of my own limitations will be of great service next time.



TO TATO: Gracias por la bienvenida, le enviaré saludos de tu parte a Kimura-sensei.

[Tato]

[QUOTE=Ratgax]I dont know if someone else has experienced a situation like this one, but it's really disencouraging.
QUOTE]

To be thrue, I was unable to end my first two session, my shape was pitifull, then again, when I first got my bogu it happened to me again.

And sometimes it still happens to me again, is a shame but it can be helped. When it happens to me (like last monday :( ) I swear to return and do something better.

Persistence is the keyword.

Cheers

[KATSUJIN]

Hi Ratgax...i am one of the guys here who disappears now and then and stays in the background. I am happy u took up kendo and here is a tip... just do ur best and enjoy kendo..... it will help u.... :D

[eKenshi]

Believe me(if you using a dailup connection).Getting hooked up in forum may cost ya your pocket to be burned(literally)The telephone bills goes KABOOM.....it rockets! :disapp:

[kendomushi]

Ratgax,

I still have days like that, especially during summer camp practices.
Just stay with it and do your best. If you get tired, rest. Kendo is wonderful, but no good if it kills you. ;)

[rpalma]

FUERZA Y PACIENCIA!!!!! It will get better.

[d3rdson]

Ah, yes ... the memory :)

I got my bogu AND have had my first shiai on fasting month ... after basic training I am three shomen away from being passed out. What an experience!

But when everyone geared up for the shiai, I just couldn't let the precious moment slipped away ... and rightly so! Got ippon on my first kote-men ... well, okay, SOMETHING resembling a kote-men ... aww, okay I was waving about my shinai and the judge felt pity on me, about nearly passing out and everything ... aneeewaaay ...

Now two years away, I'm about to have my third keikos(sp?) in fasting month and I know better now to take a spoon of honey before the dawn.

I guess it's the sense of victory over my own limitation that drive me the most.

And it's fun, too!

Enjoy yourself, and let the chips fall where they may ...

Have fun! :D

[ian woods]

Ratgax,
give it a antnother go
my 1st time was bad (i am not fit and a lot fat..)
and felt like i was going to die..whole body killed me for 3days after..
BUT it dose get better and is so much fun..
cheers :cheerful:
ian

[Ratgax]

Hello friends.

I did as you all told me and I tried again. I'm very devoted to kendo and when my body says "no" my mind keeps telling "perhaps" and my heart bumps a "SURE".

So I'm trying my best, working hard. And while I'm having a hard time fisically, I think I will make it. :-)

Sensei has changed his mind about me, on the last training sesion he told me I was showing willpower so he was impressed.

I am so happy, and I would like to thank you all, you told me to keep trying, and was a nice advice.

Thanks a lot.

[Steffen]

Hello friends.

I did as you all told me and I tried again. I'm very devoted to kendo and when my body says "no" my mind keeps telling "perhaps" and my heart bumps a "SURE".

So I'm trying my best, working hard. And while I'm having a hard time fisically, I think I will make it. :-)



Hi Ratgax.

That's exactly the right spirit !
After two years sometimes I still have those moments when there seems to be no chance of moving my legs even an inch or lifting the shinai even a centimeter (especially at weekend seminars or winter camps).
But then my mind tells me I _have_ to go on "only" for the next kakari-geiko or ji-geiko ... and it works ... and then the next ji-geiko and so on.
So the point is to push you over the edge a little bit more every time and your physical fitness will get stronger and stronger with these little steps and your kendo will improve more and more.

Keep on training,
Steffen :ditsy:

[kendomushi]

Ratgax,

Thats great. Keep it up, but don't hurt yourself. :)