After practice activities?

[nodachi]

Is it just me, or does almost everyone's Kendo club go out drinking after their practices? It seems that way from lots of the posts I have read. Like beer is the magical cureall. : )

Are your practices all at night?

I just find this strange because my club has never made any mention of alcoholic beverages at all. We practice in the morning, so they may go out to get coffee after practice, but it's a bit early for drinking. Maybe that is why I am confused.

It is kinda funny though.

:D

[Critical_Bill]

my club goes to the pub after evening practise, and to the coffee shop after morning practise :)

[Tato]

Mine is beer after friday's keiko, and on ocasion (like birthday) after the evening keiko (it's usually after midnight).

Rei

[JSchmidt]

"Like beer is the magical cureall. : )"
Of course it is..

Jakob

(Favourite beer quote: " You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline; it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
--Frank Zappa )

[alexpollijr]

Indeed it is.

It's said that there are chudan, jodan and nito drinkers. CHudan guys hold the glass directly in front of the mouth and take it in little sips. Jodan guys hold it up high and drop down large floods of beer straight into the throat, and nito guys, of course, use two glasses at the same time.:D

[Matthew Lagden]

practise usuall finishes at about 9, and yes we too go out for a drink afterwards - although by no means everyone does, so its not like if you don't go you're not a member of the dojo or anything.

[David J]

Originally posted by Matthew Lagden
although by no means everyone does, so its not like if you don't go you're not a member of the dojo or anything.

...just not a proper one :D

<rei>

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[rottunpunk]

the place where we train has a bar, we have to make the most of it,

but most people have soft drinks, cuz of driving or whatever.

i think its a good way of relaxing after a hard session. and because our club is full of new members as well as older ones its good for extra learning and bonding :p

:jaguar:

[munenmuso]

In heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here.

Espcially after kendo practice..........

[Kenshi]

Ive never been to a keiko that didnt involve alcohol post ji-geiko. Except for a morning class when I was practising in NYC... of course, I WANTED a beer, but it was 8am and I had to go to work ... that was a wierd experience.

Maybe its akin to sex and ciggarettes ?

"In heaven there is no beer..." (chuckle)

[roar]

Originally posted by alexpollijr
Indeed it is.

It's said that there are chudan, jodan and nito drinkers. CHudan guys hold the glass directly in front of the mouth and take it in little sips. Jodan guys hold it up high and drop down large floods of beer straight into the throat, and nito guys, of course, use two glasses at the same time.:D

What about hasso-drinkers, pouring beer down their backs? :)

[KhawMengLee]

Don't forget the waki kamae drinkers. Whom hide their expensive brew from scabs who might pinch a taste and whom also double their mugs as a hidden offensive weapon for a naughty bugger's noggin.

[etherknot]

Or the ever present gedan drinkers who will happily toss their drink forwards into your lap.

[bukowski]

The purpose of going out to drink is not simply to go out to drink. Outside activities involving dojo members strengthen the bond between them. A dojo is not some place with all the proper floors and shrines, a dojo is a group of people, it is this bond that must be cemented. Drinking is simply a classical "guys go to relax" sort of thing. (not specifically men, but I see it far more often with them than with women). Another good reason to go drinking is because it loosens the higher-ranking people up. In class, if you have a problem, they may be very hesitant to speak to you about it. However, I have watched 6-Dans give wonderful lectures of the hidden subtleties of _waza over a round of beer.

[KATSUJIN]

if its a weekday training....we go for dinner...if its sunday practise...we go out for lunch..a very long lunch!!