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"Rojindo"
24th November 2003, 11:01 AM
Hello.

I'm an older fellow that has taken up Kendo to keep active (well, O.K.... moving). :ermm:

I've been reading these forums here and there, now and then and I like the wide variety of questions and responses... there even seems to be a good amount of Quality Sensei and Sempai answering posts. With all this info whooshing about, I figured I'd best join up.

Kendo is a great challange for me. The demanding, rigourus training is often too much for me (having led a sedentary life in the arts) but I enjoy surviving my nights at the Dojo.

It is a unique sport we all play here...

... may we all do our best. :happy:
xvikingx
24th November 2003, 11:52 AM
Welcome. Good luck and enjoy.
Deco
24th November 2003, 12:58 PM
Greetings!!

Be our gest and you can ask what you whant and weŽll do our best to help you!!

My sensei allways say that kendo is hard and if your doing it to better your health that is the wrong way, becouse kendo (in my opinion) can show you that life is rough. But keep up friend and never give up.

Good luck!!

Deco
mystic_kendoka
26th November 2003, 02:23 AM
:) all i can do is smile :)
tango
26th November 2003, 04:07 PM
one of the beauties of kendo is that you can do it at any age...

how many 70 or 80 yr old guys do you see actively doing any hand-to-hand martial art? HARDLY ANY. if anything, they dress out, but don't work out!

how many 70 or 80 yr old guys do you see actively doing kendo?
....MANY. they are all over the place!
"Rojindo"
27th November 2003, 07:51 PM
He he... Yup, the same guys that run rings around me... all my Sensei have very capable kendo waza and most are in their fifties and sixties. All of 'em do really well indeed.

Gad, Tanaka Sensei (7th Dan) is always there watching over class and can dominate match after match all night... he's in his mid-sixties. He even played a few weeks with a cracked rib... yet it didn't show.

As for me, it's really up to these old knees of mine... which are getting a bit "noisy" in the last year or two. Other than that, I'm really enjoying challenge of real physical competition (funny, Video Fighting Games just don't do it fo me like they used to).

Ah well, Thanks to all that have posted.


( P.S. to the fellow who warned of the physical dangers... you can't make an Omlette without breaking a few bones. )
tango
27th November 2003, 09:22 PM
once again, good luck and kudos for getting active (moving! hehe) again!