The things we do for love...

[kendo_chick]

Hello everyone, thought I would post the question...

"What is the most embarrasing thing you have done in the name of Kendo?"



For myself (and a few other Canadians that went to the Cleveland, Ohio Tournament) it was when myself, and a few other lucky Canadians got to sing our National Anthem in front of a rather large crowd at the beginning of the tournament, accapella! :eek: they couldn't get the tape recorder to work so we were on our own!

[stakenaka]

Doing kendo with Laryngitis. I was yelled at for the lack of Kiai, and for not improving my kiai after the notice.
It took them a while to realize that I had no voice! :)

[kendo_chick]

A girl in our club had the same problem last week. She is usually quiet anyway, so we all kept telling her to be louder... In the locker room afterwards I found out that she was actually sick... :blush: I felt so bad for her.

[kendokamax]

hum

During a shiai match , team final in our annual tournament.
At one point during my match after a hikimen my oponent and I got in the oposites corners of the court with a good distance. For some reasons, (I was very exausted and wasn't able to think right anymore). I rush towarded him without even making a movement with my shinai trying to hit him..so I just delebary pushed him out. I felt soooo bad after realising what I just did haha but got lucky and shinpan gave him the hansoku. Everyone had a good laugh.

I have to say that I really hate it when people push a lot to make people go out of bounds. So I thought it was very funny that I did it myself once.

[kendokamax]

ah i didn<t understand the topic.
I messed up

I think the stupiest thing i did for kendo was:

failing numerous exams because of the lack of studying that kendo gives me the chance to have because i<m not studying when i'm having kendo.

quiting a job because i wanted to go to practice on saturday morning.

telling my new boss 1 week after I got hired..:"hey by the way i'm going to Vancouver next week for a kendo tournament i will not be able to go to work 1 week...but but I will do some work on the airplane!"

[mingshi]

Last year during a match in UK, an experienced short girl was fighting against a tall (bully-looking) guy in Jodan.

She did a Tsuki as the Jodan cut came down.

...then her shinai was stuck in the tall guy's Zekken for quite a while (Kiai was still heard until the Shinpan called "Yame") :spchless:

LoL

[AlexM]

Most embarrasing and/or crazy?

Hmmmm......Hauling my ass out to Halifax (14 hour drive) for a small(ish) tournament during which I'll probably get eliminated within the first 16 seconds. I'll be spending more time on the road than in the city. Probably won't see the city much (arrive late Friday night, leave early Sunday morning).

Not wait. Haven't done that yet, I'm about to do that.

[kendo_chick]

Originally posted by AlexM
Most embarrasing and/or crazy?

Hmmmm......Hauling my ass out to Halifax (14 hour drive) for a small(ish) tournament during which I'll probably get eliminated within the first 16 seconds. I'll be spending more time on the road than in the city. Probably won't see the city much (arrive late Friday night, leave early Sunday morning).

Not wait. Haven't done that yet, I'm about to do that.

That's our tournament! :D Glad you are coming down, we will definately show you a good time though!

[kendo_chick]

I think I will post another in my own thread...

This goes along with what AlexM was saying about driving long distances and not staying in cities for long. my club and I regularly travel over 20 hours by car or fly for 2 1/2 to go to tournaments in Toronto. and god knows it's expensive.

[saki_wooah]

i dont know... buying a shinai I didn't really need with all my economies, not studying or not doing my homework, I haven't done anything very stupid because it has been 9 months that i've praticed kendo

[KhawMengLee]

Heh, writing about my club every opportunity I have for my University News site:

http://emunews.murdoch.edu.au/


Click on Sept. 12th 2002

And there's 3 video clips...eh

MENG

[Confound]

Shall we make a list?

Locking myself into a small confined space with a bunch of drunken old men. (I was the youngest person there by 20 years. The next two oldest men were STILL younger than the majority by about 15 years.)

Going to another drunken debacle with a bunch of kendou sempais. Never, EVER agree to teach dancing to a drunken Japanese young man.

Agreeing to go to a karaoke bar with said sempais. O boy...

Agreeing to attend yet a third bacchic revel in a few weeks (only this one is outside and includes potatoes).

Listening to some old men who are demonstrating a kata with chopsticks and asking why they don't just use the bokutou they just received for gaining 7th dan. (apparently that was a bad thing to say.)

c

[lewis]

After a tournament, I went out with most of the kendokas in my university dojo to a sushi place downtown. After not a whole lot of saki, a japanese, former-policeman, samdan stands up on the table and starts singing, in japanese, at the top of his lungs. Very embarassing. He went on, with short breaks for saki and toasts, for almost an hour until he passed out. By then he had cleared all the non-japanese except us, which was basically everybody else except the staff, out of the restaurant. Then, while he was passed out, the restaurant staff and the rest of us partied together until the wee hours.

[Confound]

Lewis,

I invite you to come witness a Japanese party, where EVERYONE does that... I kid you not. Only here, it's expected behaviour.

c

[stinkyKote]

Odd, the same thing happened to me at a party after one of our local shiais ...

[lewis]

I guessed by the reaction of the japanese not in our group that this behavior was nothing new. They seemed to take it in stride while it was going on. Then after all the gringos left, they seemed in a really good mood and wanted to party with us.

I am glad I kept an open mind that night. We ended up having a blast.