Ever get that fluffy feeling inside..?

[projecthikari]

Where you feel really proud of your dojo and all the people in it, and you just want to go and give everyone a big hug and be like, "I'm so glad you exist and teach me~"? :o

[Peter West]

Where you feel really proud of your dojo and all the people in it, and you just want to go and give everyone a big hug and be like, "I'm so glad you exist and teach me~"? :o

er... No!
(And I hope I never do... sounds weird!)

[1 cut 1 kill]

Where you feel really proud of your dojo and all the people in it, and you just want to go and give everyone a big hug and be like, "I'm so glad you exist and teach me~"? :o
I did once but I changed my pusher and I have been fine ever since !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fonsz]

Where you feel really proud of your dojo and all the people in it, and you just want to go and give everyone a big hug and be like, "I'm so glad you exist and teach me~"? :o
I have it daily but I restrain myself and don't give in to the urge.



Are you serious? Or just your regular tree hugger?:ermm::confused::eek:

[b8amack]

I thought this thread was going to be about heat exhaustion and passing out while still wearing your men.

[absenteekendoka]

Where you feel really proud of your dojo and all the people in it, and you just want to go and give everyone a big hug and be like, "I'm so glad you exist and teach me~"? :o

And then I hit them. I think it's called keiko.........

:)

[Ken Morgan]

Maalox should help with that....

[MikeW]

As expected some hilarious replies.... but to the point... no. I take pride in my dojo and I get along very well with the members but no fluffy feeling.

[bullet08]

i prefer beer over sweaty hugs.

pete

[Ookami7]

Hard training, sore knees, even more intense week long seminar...... but no fluffy feeling..... buckets of sweat due to intense training..... hullicanation due to lack of beer..... (come on we kendoka need it regularlly) ..... still no fluffy feeling........ sure you haven`t been lighting up one two many??? and if you have save some for me lol.

[ScottUK]

I remember the first grading my students undertook. I was proper shitting myself with nerves - and I was just watching! It was only ikkyu but I was like a dad on sports day... :eek:

Now those guys are nidan and I am proud of 'em, as I am all of the dojo members - but I still don't want to hug the ugly bleeders. :D

[Ken Morgan]

OK no more jokes….

I think it’s normal to feel proud of training someone who walks in green one day, and months or years later you see them winning tournaments and achieving high gradings. Nothing wrong with that of course.

We all know the frustration of training someone. “No, do it this way, no this way, no this way, no this way….WTF, are you listening to me????”

And we all know the pride. I beat my Sensei at a small jodo taikai recently, I shrugged it off, but he still said it was a good thing. I still shrug it off but I’m sure somewhere he’s proud that he taught me 95% of what I know. (Damn, that might cost me a beer tomorrow after practice.)

Ayn Rand was always proud of her accomplishments and never shrugged them off. Nothing wrong with that.

It’s a great feeling enjoy it, you earned it.

[chidokan]

Now those guys are nidan and I am proud of 'em, as I am all of the dojo members - but I still don't want to hug the ugly bleeders.

You hugged one of my students though...perhaps because she's a mad woman and you couldn't escape????:rolleyes:

Fluffy feeling? No. Reasonably happy that they have finally got what I am trying to teach them? Yes.

[Neil Gendzwill]

You hugged one of my students though...perhaps because she's a mad woman and you couldn't escape????Perhaps she was trying to haul him off to her shed (http://www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm?SHARESHED=2109) (note the first comment).

[willszenith]

I get that feeling, so much so that my sensei is also my daughters god father, you spend so much time with a group of guys bonds are bound to build, also we have practice at our home dojo with the big boss, so all our sister dojo's meet up and it really is a family atmosphere

In the past we have helped one another, in iai and in personal terms, it's part of the budo, and whilst some say training is a lonely path some off the nutbars you share it with make it all the worth while

[Scotty Allen]

...taught me 95% of what I know. (Damn, that might cost me a beer tomorrow after practice.)

I'll be sure to remind him tomorrow night, see you then.

[projecthikari]

lmao, wow, nice comments.
I guess the "fluffy feeling" is my girly way of saying "pride."?

[Ken Morgan]

...taught me 95% of what I know. (Damn, that might cost me a beer tomorrow after practice.)I'll be sure to remind him tomorrow night, see you then.

gee...thanks Scotty....you're a pal...

[Gessho]

Where you feel really proud of your dojo and all the people in it, and you just want to go and give everyone a big hug and be like, "I'm so glad you exist and teach me~"? :o

Absolutely not! It would go to their heads and they would become insufferable...:chinese:

[still learning]

I’m sure somewhere he’s proud that he taught me 95% of what I know.

I know I am resurrecting this thread, but

[I have been away on holiday]

Ken has created/develeoped/'owns' 5% of his Jodo.

Can anyone quantify how much of their chosen MA is their own - or are most of us still at the 'I only have what others have given me' stage?

Just curious.

[ScottUK]

Actually Bill, I think this question deserves its own thread. Should be interesting to see the answers...

[Neil Gendzwill]

Ken has created/develeoped/'owns' 5% of his Jodo.How do you draw that conclusion? He's had other sensei that figure into the remaining 5% I'm sure.

[ScottUK]

Surely a certain percentage of everyone's practice is their own development...?

[b8amack]

Yeah, their flaws. :cheerful:

[Ken Morgan]

How do you draw that conclusion? He's had other sensei that figure into the remaining 5% I'm sure.


Yep, I’ve trained with some amazing iaido and jodo Sensei’s. All of the teachers who have made it to Southern Ontario, I’ve had the privilege to train with.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~iaido/iai.seminar.html (http://www.uoguelph.ca/~iaido/iai.seminar.html)

Not mention the fact that we have 3 iaido seventh Dans within an hour of each other, all willing to train any smuck that shows up at their respective doors.

95% of the jodo, ( and iaido), I’ve learned, has come from Kim. Which I am most grateful for. He is the one who showed me which foot goes where, how to move my hands. He is the one who worked with me for hours on end, by ourselves, repeating iaido and jodo kata, over and over and over again, patiently giving corrections.

Hell on Tuesday past I had an epiphany part way through jodo class. You would think that after ten years I could figure some basic things out by myself, (and I do), but he said something so simple and so ridiculously obvious, that a little light went on in my head.

I think what you’re trying to get at Bill, is how we make iaido, or jodo or kendo our own. It’ll be a good thread when you start it…:)

I think we have always done it though, from that first second, or our first day. I taught Iaido last night and while I’m sure I used some of Kim’s, and countless others teachings, I know for a fact I used my own too. What worked for me while I was learning, the little tricks I learned or picked up myself, translating how my body mechanics solves the complexity of iaido.

[still learning]

How do you draw that conclusion? He's had other sensei that figure into the remaining 5% I'm sure.

@NEIL

I know that I inferred the 'Ken owns 5%' comment, but are you suggesting that he may not even 'own' that much?

BY-THE-BY;
All;
I started the new thread that Scott suggested - - if you want to develop this 'conversation'.

Bill

[Neil Gendzwill]

I know that I inferred the 'Ken owns 5%' comment, but are you suggesting that he may not even 'own' that much?Actually he probably "owns" more of it than that. If 95% of my kendo was truly my teachers', that would make me 95% as good as them. Not a chance. Unfortunately, I creep into it way too much.