10 things that suck about kendo

[Nanbanjin]

1. Overuse of the 'Zanshin'
2. Kendo Otaku

[Nanbanjin]

3. Getting hit in the back of the head
4. Getting hit under the armpit
5. Getting hit in the shoulder by someone who is going for kote
6. Getting hit in the let by anyone going for men, kote, do
7. People who use tsuki because they are crap at everything else
8. People who think that winning is everything
9. People who start kendo because they thought 'The Last Samurai' was a really good movie.
10. The movie 'The Last Samurai'
11. All forms of anime
12. Role playing games and the people who play them
13. There aren't enough good looking girls
14. Good looking girls who don't play kendo think you are weird if you play kendo

[Nanbanjin]

15. It hurts
16. It smells
17. It's expensive
18. It's in Japanese without subtitles

[Nanbanjin]

19. Mold
20. It's too hot in summer and too cold in winter

[Nanbanjin]

21. It takes up too much time

[Nanbanjin]

22. High school students from Mexico who are obsessed with Oscar Wilde

[Nanbanjin]

23. Blisters (on hands and feet)

[Lloromannic]

24. Saying "sorry, but I need to get up early tomorrow" (I curse me for saying that)
25. People who block
26. Cocky bastards
27. Politics
28. You
29. Me (and that's Clark Gable)
24. People who post too many times in a row

[runsyi]

25. There aren't enough good looking guys.
26. Freedom Kendo advocates who insist on changing out in the open. My eyes! My eyes!
27. Having to pay extra when you get pedicures.
28. People thinking you are being abused because of the bruises.
29. There aren't enough good looking guys.

[Michiyo Akimoto]

25. Westerners who don't remove their shoes..ever..
26. ...Or bathe properly.
27. American "food"
28. Blisters on my feet from practice
29. Blisters on my blisters and snapped calf muscles...
30. People who show up to practice wearing Ruroni Kenshin outfits.

[pgsmith]

Sounding like a flock of rabid chickens!

[Nanbanjin]

Kirby Smith

[piggy]

31. Vomiting at kendo
32. not having a ride after vomiting, forced to walk about 8 miles back to your house in a hakama and flipflops and carrying your bogu and shinais.
33. Radioheads serious lack of songs about kendo or-
34. Kendo's serious lack of Radiohead.
Sorry, I was just thinking about Thom and kendo...

[samurai999]

25. There aren't enough good looking guys.


watch it now, I can say the same thing for girls just as easy.. why don't we make that #35 in that case?

Tim

[Lloromannic]

watch it now, I can say the same thing for girls just as easy.. why don't we make that #35 in that case?

Tim

cause it's already number 13

[samurai999]

31. Vomiting at kendo


haha funny thing happened at one of our team practices. One person ate too much beforehand and drank gatorade. From the look of it, it was fruit punch and the trail lead to the trash can. Obviously, he didn't make it. hahahahaha

Tim

[Alison2805]

34. Family who tell you "ask the sensei if he can tell everyone to be extra gentle with you, you are just a girl after all". Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
They wouldnt be saying that if I was playing hockey.

[runsyi]

cause it's already number 13

Yups. Thanks for mentioning that, Lloromannic!

Tim, perhaps I'm being a little hasty in my assesment. I haven't seen what the men of Brokeback Kendo Club look like yet. Harrrr.

[Anjin-san]

perhaps I'm being a little hasty in my assesment
I have my self-esteem back...:silly:


14. Good looking girls who don't play kendo think you are weird if you play kendo
I raise my pint-glass in your general direction :cool:

[samurai999]

Harrrr.

w00t! Say it louder!

Tim

[iam_pk]

haha funny thing happened at one of our team practices. One person ate too much beforehand and drank gatorade. From the look of it, it was fruit punch and the trail lead to the trash can. Obviously, he didn't make it. hahahahaha

Tim

i dont wanna drink fruit punch anymore.....-.-

[iam_pk]

35. to wear a bogu which is wet becoz of the sweat>_<
36. the smell of it is "nice" as well........

[kendokamax]

37. I want to be a samurai

[Nanbanjin]

38. Having an itchy face when you're wearing men

[Nanbanjin]

26. Freedom Kendo advocates who insist on changing out in the open. My eyes! My eyes!

Yeah, I hate that. Weirdos.

[ahmed61086]

39. The sweat that burns your eyes when your wearing men.
40. The extremly cold and damp gi you have to wear(is it just me?)
41. Not being able to practice becuase kendo hurt you.
42. Doing karakari gieko 3 times in row with 3 differnt sensie

[Commander]

Needing to go when your in full bogu :p

(Not that its even happened but i'd hate it to!)

[Washington]

18. It's in Japanese without subtitles

lololol that's a good one

[ekajati]

1 The blokes are mainly babes in arms :mad:
2 My brain knowing vividly how crap I am but my body refusing to obey quick enough in response
3 The embarassment of the Motodachis thinking I'm not aware of all the things I'm doing wrong and that my body refuses to do right
4 Having a sore heel from pt 2 and resultant frustration

but really that's all I can think of. It would be nice if I got a clearer idea of when/if I'm progressing, but that's my only other grouch.

[Nanbanjin]

Marks on the roof at home from indoor suburi

[DarQik]

- Having a bad allergy day...

(forget scratching, how do I get a tissue through the grill?)

[Nanbanjin]

People with bad breath

[Mugu]

- People who hits Men really hard
- Taiatari bullies
- People waste time on Tsuba zerai
- Tenugui got loose during Jigeiko that hair cover your eyes
- Get hit on the knuckles
- Losing my hakama pleats
- Cat sleeps in Men and wants to pee in Kote
- Get stab by spinters on the floor
- People Kiai Men before hitting Men
- Scratches on my shiny Black Do
- No bruises during practice
- People kiai like a chicken got squeezed in the neck
- Stinky Kote
- People who don't wash their Keikogi that generates "Kendo Aura"
- Brand new un-broken-in Men
- Not enough girls doing Kendo
- Fencing people leave bottles and chairs on the dojo floor

[AlexM]

43. Oiling your shinai
44. Breaking your shinai
45. Cursing your shinai
46. Breaking your other shinai
47. When wearing a men everyone sounds like they are speaking out of a bad public announcement system
48. Having your sensei tell you you were great when you thought you were terrible and saying you were terrible when you thought you were great
49. Explaining that a shinai bag is not a fishing rod or umbrella
50. Getting hit by a daito in the ear
51. Getting hit by anything in the balls
52. Having conversations start with "kote!"
53. Saying you have to "do big men vigorously" in public

[kendokamax]

54. Nito ryu

[Fonsz]

#55 Whirley Squirley Kendo

[Ipp-on Ipp-off]

Al the crap relegion related posts on this forum

[Syrdar]

57. People kiai's as if they were in a pornographic film (I swear it's true)
58. Goddam bureaucrats who delay the delivery of you Bogu in the postal office.
59. Goddam bureaucrats who charges you with 200 u$s dollars in concept of import duty for your Bogu.
60. Young girls comming at my dojo and saying: "people of your age practices kendo ?"

[tantadi]

61. Beholders of The True Meaning of Kendo.
62. Butt-"do"

[Ignatz]

63. People that refuse to admit that you scored, even when you do it again.

[Nanbanjin]

64. When you're wearing hakama and you need to take a piss.
65. The dribbly bits down the inside of your leg after you've taken a piss (and you are going commando)

[Paikea]

64. When you're wearing hakama and you need to take a piss.
65. The dribbly bits down the inside of your leg after you've taken a piss (and you are going commando)Oh man...you just made the soup blow out my nose.

[runsyi]

Yeah, I hate that. Weirdos.

Then what's this about the "dribbly" bits and going commando? Are you one of those weirdos, Nanbanjin? What really sucks about Kendo is the one or two guys that are eye candy usually go and change in the bathroom. Only the guys you don't want to see change out in the open.

Paikea, I hope that soup wasn't chunky.

66. People who try to pick out kanji that "sound like" their names for their zekken. If you don't already have kanji for your name, just write it in katakana!

[Kapplow]

god this is the best thread ever.

-Being asked "When are you gonna graduate from seminary?" While wearing hakama and gi.


there needs to be a kendo dating site. I dumped my last 2 women because they were too jealous of kendo. Was I jealous of their "girls night out"? No. Why???

More time for kendo.

[Nanbanjin]

66. People who try to pick out kanji that "sound like" their names for their zekken. If you don't already have kanji for your name, just write it in katakana!
Yeah, I hate my (Japanese) instructor for forcing me to use a kanji zekken too. (here we go again....)

Yes, I've been free-wheeling and free-balling from way back. However I'm very discreet.

[Paikea]

Paikea, I hope that soup wasn't chunky.
Barley with beef, unfortunately.

[Nanbanjin]

66. Blowing barley and beef soup out of your nose.

[Kapplow]

let us not forget putting gashes in your ceilings or any other damage from apartment kendo.

[Paikea]

66. Blowing barley and beef soup out of your nose.67. Getting it out of the keyboard.

[runsyi]

let us not forget putting gashes in your ceilings or any other damage from apartment kendo.

Think that's already been mentioned, if I'm not mistaken.

Paikea, that is unfortunate. I've got homemade chicken noodle soup for lunch and I'll be sure not to read any posts while eating it. It's sorta soup weather here and I'm figuring it's probably soup weather where you are.

Nanbanjin, no offense meant by the zekken comment, eh? I was just talking out of my arse cause we had a visitor last night with one of those. He left before I could ask his name.

And last but not least...

68. Doing katate men during kihon keiko and getting shown up by the 11-year old girl next to you.

[Ignatz]

I was just talking out of my arse. . .
That probably would be fun to see but at my age it might be fatal.:rolleyes:
p.s. kanji for name okano is much nicer than o'connor in katakana which you really can't do, okanoru?

[nodachi]

2 more things that suck about kendo...

People who forget that we are supposed to not have ego in our kendo.

Kata is not universal (every sensei teaches a little different), so you either remember all the details of how each different sensei likes kata to be done, or you simply remember the most important sensei's method and the others go in one ear and out the other.

[Hisham]

69. The very slow rate of kendo propagation all around the world.

[KHuang]

#70 : we don't get paid for winning.
#71 : no one knows about kendo . take a long to explain to them what kendo is .

[nodachi]

"#71 : no one knows about kendo . take a long to explain to them what kendo is ."

Answer... Japanese fencing... not very specific, but tends to answer the question quickly for people not actually interested in discussing the matter too deeply...

[Random]

#70 : we don't get paid for winning.
#71 : no one knows about kendo . take a long to explain to them what kendo is .

Sometimes you win stuff....I've won shinais and teneguis and stuff. lol

-People don't always keep there nails trimmed
-Getting your fingers stuck in your mengane because you were trying to sratch your nose.....T_T
-Being paranoid that your bogu will come off durning shinsa and double knotting it and getting stuck in it. (It wasn't me~! I was the one who helped get the knots out....)

[Anjin-san]

-Bullshit Politics

[Ignatz]

-Bullshit Politics
That's redundant.

[Nanbanjin]

-Bullshit Politics
I agree, but I think it's an inherent danger when forming any group involving more than one person.

[Anjin-san]

Well Kendo has it, and it sucks, therefore it's a thing that sucks about Kendo.

[Nanbanjin]

Well Kendo has it, and it sucks, therefore it's a thing that sucks about Kendo.
What number are we up to??

[tantadi]

71 according to the numbered ones. Let's make it to 100. It will be a good list to read for aspiring new kendoka. ;-)

72: Breaking toes in keiko
73: The law of the himo: It always comes undone in middle of the most exciting keiko.

[MetalCrusade]

74: being told that when sensei tsuki's you alot it means "he likes you"
75: similarily, when in tsubazerai and sensei "tsuki's" you with his fist, also as a sign of liking you:silly:

[Paburo]

76. kendo ppl who disregard, dismiss or look upon the shoulder over nitoryu and jodan. good news for you all, it's also kendo. read the ikf rules, thank you.
77. kendo girls who whine about there not being enough hot guys in kendo when they haven't even been to our dojo :D
78. kenshi going 'commando' who leave and 'lose' their nasty fluids and hair on the dojo floor.
79. sensei who yell too much and whack you in the head for no apparent reason.
80. losing.

[ekajati]

81 Being very diligent in a cold dojo in doing a repeated excercise in the "baby corner", feeling fine at the time, but then for the next 4 days not being able to walk :mad:

82 As side effect of 81, by time you have manouevred yourself into seiza (agony) everyone else is getting up again

83 Getting smacked in the face by the end of a stray shinai and not getting a massive huge blue bruise and so no one gasps over how brave you are :mad:

[Lloromannic]

84. When a shinai gets caught in the keikogi sleeve and breaks, leaving a four inch cut on my arm.

[joekc6nlx]

85. When the chopstick you use to scratch your nose through your mengane gets jammed up your nose because sensei just tai-atari'd someone against you.

86. Having to break in a new chopstick (and nose).

[ekajati]

85. When the chopstick you use to scratch your nose through your mengane gets jammed up your nose because sensei just tai-atari'd someone against you.

86. Having to break in a new chopstick (and nose).

:shocked: :shocked: :shocked: WOW! You're lucky to be alive! There isn't a hell of a lot between the top inside of your nose and your brain...:shocked:

[joekc6nlx]

:shocked: :shocked: :shocked: WOW! You're lucky to be alive! There isn't a hell of a lot between the top inside of your nose and your brain...:shocked:

That hasn't happened yet, although some would say it's because I have no brain! :silly:

[runsyi]

77. kendo girls who whine about there not being enough hot guys in kendo when they haven't even been to our dojo :D


I thought you were going to come to Hawaii to try my gazpacho? Are there many hot guys in your dojo? Besides you, that is?

87. Getting your kodachi smacked into your cheekbone during kata practice. Damn, that smarts.

[samurai999]

To add to kata.

88. Getting your pinky smashed during the 8th kata... (in amatsudas case, the middle finger in which he promptly used to show his appreciation to the person who smashed his finger. sorry!)

Tim

[Kendo-Militia]

89. Having guy from Northern Cal join your dojo and all of sudden other people think it is Brokeback Dojo.

Tim if your looking to get your back broke, not at our dojo please. Inouye and I have the rep of making girls toe nails pop of like Redenbacher.

[T.Lee]

me or tim?

come to practice lately, sensei?

[kuzu70]

87. Finding out all the shinais you brought to practice are splintered.
88. Going to keiko when you don't want to go to keiko.
89. Having no keiko, when you want to go to keiko (although 88 is probably more true).
90. Guys who's egos are bigger than that of their kendo skills.
91. Being taught kendo kihon/waza by these guys.
92. When you have to stand as the hitting dummy for your sensi.
93. Cleaning the dojo floor.
94. When all the kids drink all the refreshments after practice.

[Ignatz]

93 (a) Cleaning the dojo floor with a wash cloth.
93 (b) Cleaning the dojo floor with a wash cloth in the winter when there is no heat.

[samurai999]

89. Having guy from Northern Cal join your dojo and all of sudden other people think it is Brokeback Dojo.

Tim if your looking to get your back broke, not at our dojo please. Inouye and I have the rep of making girls toe nails pop of like Redenbacher.

Hey it wasn't me who started the brokeback stuff and no, my back isn't broken, wasn't broken and will never be broken... Lastly, "toe nails pop off like Redenbacher"?

Tim

[Sôjirô]

94. ripping hair out of your head when ur tieing ur men... all ppl with long hair must know what im talking about.. ouch...

[Nanbanjin]

95. Putting on your hakama before your keikogi
96. Putting on your men and realising you haven't put on your Do yet

[joekc6nlx]

94. When all the kids drink all the refreshments after practice.

That's why we have a "second dojo"......adult beverages.....

97. leaving practice for the "second dojo" only to find out you didn't bring any spare cash.

[T.Lee]

Lastly, "toe nails pop off like Redenbacher"?

Tim

ahhh.... timmy doesnt know about making girls toes curl huh. here, let me relate it to something you would have a reference on: you know that song "turning japanese"?

[samurai999]

ahhh.... timmy doesnt know about making girls toes curl huh. here, let me relate it to something you would have a reference on: you know that song "turning japanese"?

remember I spent 5 years of my life doing nothing but studying and therefore having no life... I heard the song, but dunno anything else further than that..

Tim

[T.Lee]

remember I spent 5 years of my life doing nothing but studying and therefore having no life...

all the more reason youd know that song... :evil:

[samurai999]

all the more reason youd know that song... :evil:

I look at the song lyrics and I still don't get it... Whatever it was, it was kendo, studying and work the 3 years after so I had no time to do whatever it was you were implying?? :puzzled:

Tim

[ahmed61086]

98. How about the well known kendo 'slump' or has that allready been mentioned?

[ekajati]

99 Being corrected (unsolicited of course!) by a beginner who is even more of a beginner than you are, on a point which they are wrong about and you are right (confirmed by Sensei)

[tantadi]

If the says sensei that you are right, in front of the beginner, then it is a plus..;-)

NUMERO 100. Being so tired after training that you get drunk after just one beer.

(That could also be a positive..)

[Barth]

Instead of getting hit and having pain:

101: Missing your target and hitting someone under his armpit or above his kote.

I feel bad about myself when I hit someone like that.

[Kendo-Militia]

I look at the song lyrics and I still don't get it... Whatever it was, it was kendo, studying and work the 3 years after so I had no time to do whatever it was you were implying?? :puzzled:

Tim

Damn your embarassing us. There's other dojos that practice on Wednesday nights. J/K. HAHAHA

[Serenity]

What's wrong with u guys! Cleaning the dojo floor is soooo much fun! :cheeky: (I really like it! :devious: )

... I hate the fact, I have to drive a long way to my kendo practise. :shocked:
... I really don't like jigeiko! :hurt:
... Kendo stinks (or should I say, male kendokas after a hard kendo practise. :hurt: )!!! :silly:

[tattooedasshole]

... I really don't like jigeiko! :hurt:
Blasphemy!!!

[Fonsz]

... Kendo stinks (or should I say, male kendokas after a hard kendo practise. :hurt: )!!! :silly:
Bite your tongue young lady, I suppose you have never smelt the lady Kendokas after a hard practice they certainly don't smell like roses.:shocked:

[Infinity]

#102 Whingers

[ekajati]

#102 Whingers

D'OH! :D :D :D :D

[Newbie]

Bite your tongue young lady, I suppose you have never smelt the lady Kendokas after a hard practice they certainly don't smell like roses.

No, we smell like bogu, which is even sweeter than roses to the true kendoka ;)

[Stimpson J. Cat]

you know that song "turning japanese"?

You're dating yourself with that reference T. Of couse that fact that I caught it says something about me as well.:rolleyes:

[Paikea]

You're dating yourself with that reference T. Of couse that fact that I caught it says something about me as well.:rolleyes:...I really think so. Oops.

[runsyi]

...I really think so. Oops.

We actually had a discussion about this after keiko last night. I'll never forget my sempai's face as he demonstrated for a couple of the girls who didn't know what it meant. I hope I won't have to do kata with him anytime soon because I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.

That's another thing that sucks about Kendo, I guess. Getting reamed for yawning or getting the giggles during kata.

[Paikea]

That's another thing that sucks about Kendo, I guess. Getting reamed for yawning or getting the giggles during kata.Can't say that I've ever been accused of being a giggler...I do a good "stinkeye" though.

[Serenity]

Bite your tongue young lady, I suppose you have never smelt the lady Kendokas after a hard practice they certainly don't smell like roses.:shocked:

I never said, thet I would smell like a rose, :wink: ... but we definitely do not smell so horrible as you boys. :devious:

[Serenity]

Blasphemy!!!

Do not tease me! :devious: I really love kendo, but jigeiko ...:disapp: -> I'm afraid of it. Had a bad experience while I was a newbi ... :down: But I try to do my best, fighting against my fear. FIGHTO! :silly:

[kuzu70]

Jikeiko is my favorite part! FIGHTO!!

[Washington]

Well... either I blew out my voice at tournament this weekend or I finally hit puberty

[Vortex]

Hearing your girl ( or guy depending on your preference ) say " Another Tournament? If your cheating on me just say it! ".... Like its just a bunch of out of town bootycalls...

[tattooedasshole]

Do not tease me! :devious: I really love kendo, but jigeiko ...:disapp: -> I'm afraid of it. Had a bad experience while I was a newbi ... :down: But I try to do my best, fighting against my fear. FIGHTO! :silly:
You can't be expected to do more than your best. Keep on fighting, and you'll get passed the fear.
If you don't mind my asking, what was the "bad experience"?

[LarsCW]

I'm really suprised nobody added

103. Receiving a missed tsuki on your troat leaving a huge hicky like mark
104. Having some axeman do kote men hiki men on you like having to hit thru you while being nidan
105. The famous nipple do OUCH

[Stimpson J. Cat]

106. Walking into your first practice thinking your general athletic ability and/or previous martial arts experience will make for a smooth start, and instead finding yourself just as bad as everybody else:disapp:

[Serenity]

You can't be expected to do more than your best. Keep on fighting, and you'll get passed the fear.
If you don't mind my asking, what was the "bad experience"?

Domo arigato for your advice! Just my two cents: I don't like jigeiko, but 2 or 3 times I really enjoyed it ... and it was soooo great! :devious:

Yes, you may aks ... read it here (http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3197)! :cheeky:

[tattooedasshole]

Domo arigato for your advice! Just my two cents: I don't like jigeiko, but 2 or 3 times I really enjoyed it ... and it was soooo great! :devious:

Yes, you may aks ... read it here (http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3197)! :cheeky:
Wow, that's really bad. You should refuse to keiko with people like that. I hope things have gotten better since then.

[Naginatagirl]

107: having to leave practice early.
108: missing practice
109: being late for practice since the damn trains don't run any earlier >(
110: when your hair gets stuck in the men himo and it takes forever to untangle (aka, rip out).
111: holes in your kote.
112: people who don't kiai.
113: lazy motodachi
114: sempai that look down at kohai
115: having to fold your hakama after washing it. (damn folds...)

[samurai999]

116. Having to re-iron your hakama after parents throw it into the washer, then dryer when they can't stand the smell.

Tim

[Paikea]

Just this week:

117. Bursitis in the left elbow
118. A damn NP fishing around with a needle trying to drain the bursitis
119. The cortizone shot that tops off the experience
120. The untimely death of a sempai
121. A favorite sensei returning to San Jose after nine years (you SJ guys take care of "our" Tanaka-sensei, OK?)
122. A best keiko friend moving back to Mainz (you Mainz guys take care of our Rudy, OK?)

Me cranky? Hell no, what's it to you?

Life continues.:)

[Lloromannic]

Just this week:

117. Bursitis in the left elbow
118. A damn NP fishing around with a needle trying to drain the bursitis
119. The cortizone shot that tops off the experience
120. The untimely death of a sempai
121. A favorite sensei returning to San Jose after nine years (you SJ guys take care of "our" Tanaka-sensei, OK?)
122. A best keiko friend moving back to Mainz (you Mainz guys take care of our Rudy, OK?)

Me cranky? Hell no, what's it to you?

Life continues.:)

You forgot Prince Alberts

[Paikea]

You forgot Prince AlbertsI'm afraid I cannot forget them, unfortunately. Don't you wonder who came up with that first? Wow...

[ekajati]

123 Having the night from hell, feeling like a zombie that has died multiple times before being resurrected, and then only partially (resurrected), wanting to go to class and having to have the "will I won't I go" dialogue inside and fearing that if you do go Sensei will give Hayasuburi and the nasty bunny hoppy sonkyo men all in one night plus other horrid things like he did last class :disapp: :disapp: and will then become long term inmate of place of work (hospital) rather than mere employee.:disapp:

[MSPaintClock]

124. Wearing Roller Skates while doing Kendo.

[tattooedasshole]

I'm afraid I cannot forget them, unfortunately. Don't you wonder who came up with that first? Wow...
It was this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha\

It probably wasn't actualy him, but it's who it's credited to most.

[ekajati]

124. Wearing Roller Skates while doing Kendo.

:D :D I would have thought that'd be an UNBELIEVABLY COOL thing to do in Kendo!!!! Ah, the sound of "MEEEEEeeeeeeennnn" fading into the distance as a happy Rolloka gives a whole new meaning to "follow through".... :D :D :D

[Paikea]

It was this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha\

It probably wasn't actualy him, but it's who it's credited to most.Later in the Prince Albert article:

"No contemporary evidence supports this rumour and it is certain to have been an invention by Doug Malloy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Malloy) who popularised more extreme forms of body piercing and wished to give this form a spurious heritage"

Oh, Doug....deprecating Vicky's man that way.

[Ignatz]

So the guy who was responsible for Musak in elevators was also into self mutilation. Makes sense.

[MSPaintClock]

So the guy who was responsible for Musak in elevators was also into self mutilation. Makes sense.


Rofl yessss

[Shep]

125. Shift work that means you have to miss 2 out of 5 training sessions.
Bloody work, gets in the way.

[Naginatagirl]

126. People who only stay for drills and leave before keiko [consistantly and without actual reason].

>| It's just lame.

[Penguin Rush]

127. Having a tsuki go IN your men and up your nose.

[Newbie]

128. Getting to training, putting out your bogu after a day of feeling flat and lethargic but thinking you'll feel better when you start training cos you always do, then whilst talking to your sempai saying you'll be fine, having a massive dizzy spell and watch everyone else train for the entire session.

[MSPaintClock]

128. Getting to training, putting out your bogu after a day of feeling flat and lethargic but thinking you'll feel better when you start training cos you always do, then whilst talking to your sempai saying you'll be fine, having a massive dizzy spell and watch everyone else train for the entire session.


:( That sounds like it does suck.

[Omnis]

129. When you forget to get your new sensei's phone number and, without warning, nobody shows up to today's class, as I have just experienced. :(

[LarsCW]

129. When you forget to get your new sensei's phone number and, without warning, nobody shows up to today's class, as I have just experienced. :(

When on thursdays when we usually have class from Odinot sensei and not many show up he either teaches us alot about the mental part of kendo which means alot of listening or he makes it a really intense pratise with loads of interval exersizes. Worse of all in my opinion is side wards kiri kaershi around the dojo and especially at the corners that's extra hard.

[TheChessQueen]

there needs to be a kendo dating site. I dumped my last 2 women because they were too jealous of kendo. Was I jealous of their "girls night out"? No. Why???

Hell yes. The guys I hang out with just dont understand my obsession with kendo and karate. We should start a dating forum. KendokaOnline or something.

One thing I hate though. All the cute guys in kendo are taken.

[tibetan]

Hell yes. The guys I hang out with just dont understand my obsession with kendo and karate. We should start a dating forum. KendokaOnline or something.

One thing I hate though. All the cute guys in kendo are taken.


hep!! waitchaminute gurl, dont conclude too soon. I could safely say that there are at least 9 of them remaining here in this thread!!:cheeky:

[Penguin Rush]

130. Tripping on your own hakama during a hiki-waza.
131. Getting a DO swing on your crotch.

[Alison2805]

132. As a girl: Getting a high do cut from someone who hits so hard that you get the pattern of the stitching inside the do bruised across your chest. Owowowowowww!!! Thats happened twice now...

[Omnis]

hep!! waitchaminute gurl, dont conclude too soon. I could safely say that there are at least 9 of them remaining here in this thread!!:cheeky:

Word. :rolleyes:

[Penguin Rush]

132. As a girl: Getting a high do cut from someone who hits so hard that you get the pattern of the stitching inside the do bruised across your chest. Owowowowowww!!! Thats happened twice now...

That should be part of 131.

[tantadi]

hep!! waitchaminute gurl, dont conclude too soon. I could safely say that there are at least 9 of them remaining here in this thread!!:cheeky:

Maybe they should present themselves in a new thread...:grin: the rare and seldomly seen Single Male Kendoka.

[Newbie]

Single Male Kendoka

You forgot 'good looking'. Not that we kendoka chicks are shallow or anything!

133. Using public transport and having to lug your bogu bag and shinai bag around with you everywhere, as well as your workbag.

134. The fact that a few bad roleplayers have given all roleplayers a bad rep so that we appear in one of the things that suck about kendo. I throw my 12th level paladin at whoever said that ;)

135. The fact that Ten Things That Suck About Kendo thread is far longer than the Ten Things That Are Great About Kendo thread.

[ekajati]

136 That despite the fact we have to wrap & tie ourselves up in intricate knots in the blue jimjams on a multiple weekly basis, at no point do we get sent free to an exotic location as a prize :silly:

[samurai999]

126. People who only stay for drills and leave before keiko [consistantly and without actual reason].

>| It's just lame.

LOL with work, I'm the exact opposite right now.. Come only in time for waza and keiko.

Tim

[TheChessQueen]

Maybe they should present themselves in a new thread...:grin: the rare and seldomly seen Single Male Kendoka.

Ok I am starting one in the lounge

[MSPaintClock]

Ok I am starting one in the lounge

Ahahaha, anyway


137. Other New Guys swinging men like a hammer. :( Ow.

[Penguin Rush]

138. Your nose itches during jigeiko

[Stimpson J. Cat]

138. Your nose itches during jigeiko

You make it to jigeiko? I think most people's nose starts to itch as soon as their men is tied

[Penguin Rush]

You make it to jigeiko? I think most people's nose starts to itch as soon as their men is tied

You're right, but it's most annoying during jigeiko. By then sweat should be dripping down also.

139. You get a wedgie.

[Kitsune]

- been hit in kote several times (in a bad way)
- been hit several times in the men really hard
- been hit on my hips (suppose to be doh)
- having problems with my hakama (sometimes I stomp on it)
- having problems with the men laces
- kenshi's that think they are better then you (and you can see they're not)
- People who signed in in Kendo classes because of Kill Bill
- Kill Bill
- People who starts playing with the shinais doing Gatotsu
- Having problems understanding and memorizing the names of the wazas.

PS: Nanbanjin, where is exactly your country?? Wich flag is that?

[Newbie]

- People who signed in in Kendo classes because of Kill Bill
- Kill Bill

Okay. I'm gonna say this once and for all. I liked Kill Bill. I enjoyed watching it. I thought it was fun and well done. And the Last Samurai (if you delete the last half hour, that was stupid). And really, who cares why someone signed up to do kendo as long as they stay for the right reason?

People are always saying that those two movies are two things that suck about kendo but, you know what? They aren't about kendo. We all joined kendo for different reasons and I doubt they're the reasons we kept doing it. Who cares what that reason was so why bag a couple Hollywood movies all the time and make other people too embarrassed to say that's why they started kendo initially? (and no, it's not why I started, I'm not a hundred percent sure myself.)

[Ignatz]

Nothing sucks about kendo. It is all good. Now quit your bellyaching or I'll come over there and give you something to cry about.:grin:

[Neil Gendzwill]

You're right, but it's most annoying during jigeiko. By then sweat should be dripping down also.Keep some kind of small nose-scratching device in your zekken, if it's a constant problem for you. Some people whittle down old shinai take for that.

[Kitsune]

Okay. I'm gonna say this once and for all. I liked Kill Bill. I enjoyed watching it. I thought it was fun and well done. And the Last Samurai (if you delete the last half hour, that was stupid). And really, who cares why someone signed up to do kendo as long as they stay for the right reason?

People are always saying that those two movies are two things that suck about kendo but, you know what? They aren't about kendo. We all joined kendo for different reasons and I doubt they're the reasons we kept doing it. Who cares what that reason was so why bag a couple Hollywood movies all the time and make other people too embarrassed to say that's why they started kendo initially? (and no, it's not why I started, I'm not a hundred percent sure myself.)



Sorry if I offended you, I thought anyway this thread was for having fun a lil bit of the things we dislike: having a lil smile because you can not touch your nose when you have you men on sometimes is just good and it's just that.
A white whale it's sometimes just a white whale. Never forget that

[Lloromannic]

Nothing sucks about kendo. It is all good. Now quit your bellyaching or I'll come over there and give you something to cry about.:grin:

Is your coffee so bad?

[Ignatz]

Is your coffee so bad?
It's all good dude. The negative waves are disrupting my Wa.

[Penguin Rush]

Keep some kind of small nose-scratching device in your zekken, if it's a constant problem for you. Some people whittle down old shinai take for that.

Im planning on buying that face pick from eguchi. Looks crazy! I need something hard to scratch my nose, being a penguin and all. A simple bamboo piece wont satisfy my beak.


Nothing sucks about kendo. It is all good. Now quit your bellyaching or I'll come over there and give you something to cry about.

True, but this is all just for fun.

140. Getting punched in the face when someone does men and runs by with zanshin.

141. Having to watch your brand new shinai get pulverized by beginners during kirakeishi.

[ekajati]

Nothing sucks about kendo. It is all good. Now quit your bellyaching or I'll come over there and give you something to cry about.:grin:

Actually, just to throw in a cross-over post, one cool thing about Kendo seems to be that you get to get together with other Kendokas and have a good old bitch about what sucks about it .... :laugh: :laugh:

[Kitsune]

141. Having to watch your brand new shinai get pulverized by beginners during kirakeishi.


HAHAHAHA!!!! :laugh: That's so true! I forgot about it when I was writing my list.

[Newbie]

Sorry if I offended you, I thought anyway this thread was for having fun a lil bit of the things we dislike

Sorry. Just seen it said so many times and I find it getting very old. That and I'm stressed so my temper is moving fingers faster than my brain (having to move house again!) but that's no reason to take it out on you guys :)

[Kitsune]

Glad to know that you're not mad... I'm having the same complications than you (stess it`s dreadfull) But kendo is a good way to pull out stress. Hope you can rest from whatever is troubleing you soon!:evolved:

[Penguin Rush]

Kendo is a good stress reliever, whether you win or lose. My first shiai was one of the most fun expierence I had, and I lost every match.

[Rouisu]

142) People who dislike nito. You're just haters! Nito-Ryu for life, fool!

143) Having a nosebleed while your men is still on (thankfully when it happened to me I managed to get my men off before it got worse)

144) People who feel Harai waza involves the use of motions similar to a baseball swing. I swear, my shinai ain't so straight anymore (that kinda sounded bad)

145) The SCA for constantly challenging us to 'duels'

146) When your toes get stepped on when your opponent tai-ataris you...

147) ...Finding out part of your toenail snapped off when you take a look

148) Internet Samurai/Backyard Ryu swordsmen/Lost descendants of Musashi

149) Being constantly stopped by security guards to check your bogu bag *sigh*

150) People asking if your shinai bag has fishing rods in it

151) Japanese kendo players who are smiling through their men while they are pounding the crap out of you during ji-geiko. (That's right, I'm talking about you Takeshi-sensei! One day my nito shall pwn joo!!! Tsugi no jikan!)

[Nochi-no-tsuki]

152.) explaining kendo to family and friends over and over again because they can't seem to remember what the hell it is.
153.) trying so hard to develope the 'snap' at the end of swings that you keep hearing about, only to have your sensei tell you to stop doing that, but you can't because now it's habit.
154.) having people ask you why you are doing kendo since you are a non-asian female.
155.) the utter humiliation of having your borrowed men loosen and almost fall off during jigeiko with your sensei because it's too big for you and having to sit down to fix it.

[a.hong]

156) Hearing some random kid call the national team "Stick karate people" as they practice.

[LarsCW]

Dunno if it was added already.

Not being able to kendo sucks the most of all about kendo in my opinion

[Nanbanjin]

23985) Not having a word in English to verbalise 'doing' kendo that everyone can agree with.
23986) Having people scowl at you when you say you 'play' kendo.

[Penguin Rush]

23985) Not having a word in English to verbalise 'doing' kendo that everyone can agree with.
23986) Having people scowl at you when you say you 'play' kendo.

Let's make kendo a verb also. Who's willing to make a petition to send to Oxford? If they made Muggles an actual word, I'm sure we can get kendo to be a verb.

[Ignatz]

A gerund, I think.

[LarsCW]

Let's make kendo a verb also. Who's willing to make a petition to send to Oxford? If they made Muggles an actual word, I'm sure we can get kendo to be a verb.

you need a petition for that?

Just do as the Dutch use it and they change it in time.

[Kitsune]

In spanish is the same... Start using a word and with time and patience you'll see everyone use it.

[GoldenShinai]

Good idea. Instead of I "do" kendo, or I "play" kendo, it's just, "I kendo"

[GoldenShinai]

Sorry for the double posts, but-

157. Having my friend's definition of my practicing kendo as being "into samurais". And having him constantly remind me that "all the ninjas are dead for a reason". What an asshole.

[LarsCW]

Sorry for the double posts, but-

157. Having my friend's definition of my practicing kendo as being "into samurais". And having him constantly remind me that "all the ninjas are dead for a reason". What an asshole.

Give him a ninja suit for his Bday and beat the crap out of him as part of your so called training then if he still don't see it bring him to the dojo and let him see how it really goes. If he still not sees it after that he's just part of the ignorant ppl that wishes to remain like that.

[Marubaii]

158. Not being 'legal' when there actually ARE good looking single men at your dojo.

[Penguin Rush]

Good idea. Instead of I "do" kendo, or I "play" kendo, it's just, "I kendo"

Or I kendon't.

"I kendon't on Fridays."

[mistabushido]

Or I kendon't.

"I kendon't on Fridays."

Or... Let's not.

[Hai_hai]

159. Rich boy show-offs.
160. Poor boy show-offs.

[D'Artagnan]

161 or somethin > taking that first step onto the shiai jo, just before you rei, and realising you need to urinate, really bad!

[Penguin Rush]

161 or somethin > taking that first step onto the shiai jo, just before you rei, and realising you need to urinate, really bad!

Or having to fart. It easier to hold your piss than super gas.

[Nanbanjin]

Already said this one but I didn't give it a number... Last weekend was a reminder.

162) Kirby Smith

[Stimpson J. Cat]

Or having to fart. It easier to hold your piss than super gas.

But a good loud kiai will cover up the sound of a fart, it's not like you can take a leak in your hakama without it being noticed.

[Marubaii]

it may cover up the sound, but not the smell... and the silent ones are the worst anyway... *blech*

[Lloromannic]

A perfect opportunity to strike.

[samurai999]

160. Poor boy show-offs.

Analogous to ricey lookin' cars?

Tim

[MikeW]

163. People that complain about kendo

164. How can there be a 164 when NOTHING about kendo sucks?


;)

[Eiliries]

165. People who have never practiced kendo, yet feel the need to complain about kendo.

[Marubaii]

166. People who assume you have to practice kendo to know about some of the things that suck about kendo.
(Some things can be gathered by watching you know, and the smell of a fart isn't kind enough to confine itself to it's maker and the maker's opponent)

[Eiliries]

166. People who assume you have to practice kendo to know about some of the things that suck about kendo.
(Some things can be gathered by watching you know, and the smell of a fart isn't kind enough to confine itself to it's maker and the maker's opponent)
19-04-2006 09:58 PM people who assume people don't practice kendo.

And 4 minutes later, you posted this, how very subtle. I'm not assuming that you don't practice kendo, I know it. You have, yourself admitted that you have never been to a kendo dojo.

[Marubaii]

What made you think I was trying to be subtle? And I have been to a few dojos.

[Marubaii]

And Eilires if this wasn't you I'm sorry but

"165. People who have never practiced kendo, yet feel the need to complain about kendo."

16-04-2006 07:49 PM Why are you posting in this thread when you don't practice kendo?


isn't very subtle either. (unless of course it's just coincidence)

[Ignatz]

What made you think I was trying to be subtle? And I have been to a few dojos.
Please name them.

[Alison2805]

Hey Marubaii, I have just had the painful experience of reading all 74 posts you have ever written. NOT ONE OF THEM IS ABOUT KENDO. They are all just obnoxious comments to people who DO kendo.

Been to a few dojos? Sure. Ive been to Paliament House, that doesnt make me the Prime Minister.

[Penguin Rush]

Hey Marubaii, I have just had the painful experience of reading all 74 posts you have ever written. NOT ONE OF THEM IS ABOUT KENDO. They are all just obnoxious comments to people who DO kendo.

Been to a few dojos? Sure. Ive been to Paliament House, that doesnt make me the Prime Minister.

I've been to a gas station, doesn't make me a car.

[ace]

i love how on this forum people just love to start fights its great to read.
even through this is the flames section it happens all over kwf.
its like a mini springer show.
Anyway thats it just a pointless post like most of the other ones on here.

Cheers Anthony

[DarQik]

i love how on this forum people just love to start fights its great to read.
even through this is the flames section it happens all over kwf.
its like a mini springer show.It reminds me more of Usenet a few months after AOL was connected to the Internet. I used usenet quite a bit back then, but suddenly the signal to noise ratio exploded and it became trash.

[ukenagashi]

half the stuff that Nanbanjin at the beggining wernt kendo related any way, the fact that you hate kill bill has nothing to do with kendo at all, its a film kendo is a martial art,

[Nanbanjin]

I never mentioned 'Kill Bill', but yeah, it sucked dog's balls, and as it and the Last Samurai (the movie I did mention) were the inspiration for a generation of flash-in-the-pan kendo try-hards both movies are definitely kendo related.

[ukenagashi]

yeah but u dont go to a dojo and say "oh i hate the last samurai im gonna quit kendo coz i hate it so much" do you? no

[Nanbanjin]

Yeah, but if a random tree fell somewhere in a large anonymous forest, if nobody was around to hear the sound of it falling, then it might as well have never bothered in the first place!!!!!!!!!!

[ukenagashi]

hmm yes i can see now that the tree is quite greenly invisable, and sounds isnt constant if the vibration are ceased

(i can stop making sense as much as u mate)

[tantadi]

Yeah, but if a random tree fell somewhere in a large anonymous forest, if nobody was around to hear the sound of it falling, then it might as well have never bothered in the first place!!!!!!!!!!
Relates to 167: Kendoka who claim to have seme, but really don't. A classical line from a semeless nidan: "I tried to give you a really slow seme now (since you didn't react on the short one), so that you have time to react on it.":rolleyes: Me, thinking, not saying "So THAT was what you were doing.."

[Hai_hai]

I've been to a gas station, doesn't make me a car.
Maybe it does.

[Eiliries]

And Eilires if this wasn't you I'm sorry but

"165. People who have never practiced kendo, yet feel the need to complain about kendo."

16-04-2006 07:49 PM Why are you posting in this thread when you don't practice kendo?


isn't very subtle either. (unless of course it's just coincidence)
Awesome, you should be sorry.

[Suiken]

cheers everyone, this thread just gave me a great time. I hope nobody find out what I am really doing at work.

167. Wannabe koryu practitioners who tell you, you are just doind a "sport".
168. Karsten G. from E. (if you will ever meet him you will know what I mean)
169. Old people joining the club and trying to be seniors from the start, despite missing skill and experience in Kendo and any kind of respect towards you because you more than 20 years younger.
170. People working as voluteer with you for your club and do serious mistakes, blaming always the others.

[Suiken]

171. I forgot to mention the same old people like in 169 who demand for special training, because the can't even do 11 Hayasuburi, although they could have been starting golf instead of kendo.

[Clarito]

1. it's nowhere near my location.
i live in bellingham , wa.
i drive to bellevue every tuesday for iaido, can't afford to drive twice a week.

[Ignatz]

169. Old people joining the club and trying to be seniors from the start, despite missing skill and experience in Kendo and any kind of respect towards you because you more than 20 years younger.
170. People working as voluteer with you for your club and do serious mistakes, blaming always the others.
171. I forgot to mention the same old people like in 169 who demand for special training, because the can't even do 11 Hayasuburi, although they could have been starting golf instead of kendo.
172. People who don't have a clue about Kendo.

[Paikea]

172. People who don't have a clue about Kendo.I'd have to enter "Taiatari drills with people like #172" in the "good things" list, wouldn't I?

[Ignatz]

I'd have to enter "Taiatari drills with people like #172" in the "good things" list, wouldn't I?
Or kote drills until somebody starts crying.

[Suiken]

172. People who don't have a clue about Kendo.
Would you mind explaining if you meant somebody in peticular with 172? It might not be on purpose, but it could be mistaken as you were pointing at me. In case this is not a mistake, I wonder how we know each other or how you come to think that you know me.

[Ignatz]

The concept of Kendo is to discipline the human character through the application of the principles of the Katana.

The purpose of practicing Kendo is:

To mold the mind and body,
To cultivate a vigorous spirit,
And through correct and rigid training,
To strive for Improvement in the art of Kendo;
To hold in esteem human courtesy and honor,
To associate with others with sincerity,
And to forever pursue the cultivation of oneself.
Thus will one be able to love his country and society,
To contribue to the development of culture,
And to promote peace and prosperity among all people.

[Suiken]

In that case I did not take the topic of this thread serious enough. I do not hate any people and pay the respect to everyone, if he/she earns it or not. From what I read here on 17 pages, this thread was a humoristic composition of subjective things people bother about Kendo (or in my case about my former kendo dojo). I regret if anyone misunderstood what I meant.


Or kote drills until somebody starts crying.
Own goal, my friend. You just prooved yourself not to be worthy of your own principles.

Ah, besides. You don't have to love your country to be a sinceer Kendo practitioner. have a nice day.

[Suiken]

I meant 14 pages

[Ignatz]

. . . From what I read here on 17 pages, this thread was a humoristic composition of subjective things people bother about Kendo (or in my case about my former kendo dojo). . . .
Sorry, guess I just don't get German Humor.

[Suiken]

Sorry, guess I just don't get German Humor.
no offence! Sometimes I have trouble with German humour myself.

[Nanbanjin]

(i can stop making sense as much as u mate)
You proved that ages ago.

[Paikea]

Would you mind explaining if you meant somebody in peticular with 172? It might not be on purpose, but it could be mistaken as you were pointing at me. In case this is not a mistake, I wonder how we know each other or how you come to think that you know me.Any similarities to yourself are purely coincidental. I also despise golfers, volunteers, old people and people named Karsten.

[Paikea]

Sorry, guess I just don't get German Humor.It's Irish humor, with class and big girls with spears.

[Anime12478]

Not relly sure if this has been mentioned yet, but...

173. Hearing the sensei say that it's time for the beginners to learn kote...and you're the motodachi.

[Ignatz]

It's Irish humor, with class and big girls with spears.
Kill the wabbit.
Kill the wabbit.
I will kill the wabbit with my spear and magic helmet.

[The great I AM]

174. Drunkards on train asking to see your digeridoo (sp? That aboriginal instrument thingy)
175. Aformentioned drunks who tell you that they could "have you". Yeah. Brokeback style.
176. Having kohai who insist on hitting on each and every single piece of ass that is in or out of the dojo.
177. Anything to do with heavy contact between my balls and a shinai, mine or otherwise.
178. Realising that serruptitiosly trying to pass wind in tsubazeriai will only result in sharting.

[Anjin-san]

176. Having kohai who insist on hitting on each and every single piece of ass that is in or out of the dojo.

Again... I aim to please.

[The great I AM]

Again... I aim to please.Apparently not to reply to emails though....

[Karaken]

I always thought enduring itch nose builds your character. However last week I entered into very new territory.

179. Having to KENDO with Men for an hour with fully blown seasonal allergy.

Eyes, eyelids, nose, throat - all in liquids.. Having to kote-suriyage-kote with blurred vision was an ultimate challenge. I had two tengui full of liquids washed out of my face afterwards.. :-(

[Nanbanjin]

176. Having kohai who insist on hitting on each and every single piece of ass that is in or out of the dojo.


177. Having hit on every single piece of ass in the dojo, realising what you've done and being too embarrassed to show your face there again.... Remember; never with anyone even in the same office, dojo, building, maybe even suburb. And never hit on girls in coffee shops 'cause it's hard to find good coffee in Tokyo.

[Mokujin77]

178. Getting that lovely new hakama and keiko-gi set, not setting the dye properly and ending up looking like Papa Smurf.

179. Watching one of your fellow noobs cream the motodachi with a men cut and then knowing that the motodachi is going to take it out on the rest of you.

In fact, being a noobie in general sucks quite bad.

[JBouch]

180. Being at a disorganized taikai and only being given 1 minute's notice before it's your turn for shiai, leaving you rushing to be ready. That's probably the only thing I've ever truly truly hated in my kendo experiences so far, but it never ceases to get me really frustrated (and frantic, and needing to calm down as the match begins) No, I won't name any taikai.

[Bear of Doom]

Not relly sure if this has been mentioned yet, but...

173. Hearing the sensei say that it's time for the beginners to learn kote...and you're the motodachi.

Absolutely agree!

[Lone Kitten]

177. Having hit on every single piece of ass in the dojo, realising what you've done and being too embarrassed to show your face there again.... Remember; never with anyone even in the same office, dojo, building, maybe even suburb. And never hit on girls in coffee shops 'cause it's hard to find good coffee in Tokyo.

178.
being hit on by dorky guys who only started kendo to meet women, realised that there aren no women, and then jumped on the only one they can find!

[Lloromannic]

You know, that sounds really harsh on yourself.

[JBouch]

177. Having hit on every single piece of ass in the dojo, realising what you've done and being too embarrassed to show your face there again.... Remember; never with anyone even in the same office, dojo, building, maybe even suburb. And never hit on girls in coffee shops 'cause it's hard to find good coffee in Tokyo.

no good coffee? Obviously you haven't been introduced to the BOSS.

[Saigo]

Absolutely agree!
Lol I agree totaly even though I have not done it I feel bad for my sempai there arms must be so bruised from me

[Anjin-san]

179. Having my already damaged right big toe nail RIPPED OFF BY A PSYCHOTIC CZECK GIRL. BLOOD EVERYWHERE.

[Ignatz]

179. Having my already damaged right big toe nail RIPPED OFF BY A PSYCHOTIC CZECK GIRL. BLOOD EVERYWHERE.
That'll teach you not to hit on kendo girls.

[joekc6nlx]

That'll teach you not to hit on kendo girls.

and to keep your toenails trimmed. Wolverine wouldn't make it in kendo......:silly:

[Ivy]

Dearest Najaf,

a) it wasnt entirely my fault, we stepped in and hie same time, you were a bit faster.
b) do you call PSYCHOTIC a girl trying to defend herself in a fight witha mad shodan?
c) Ignatz, why thank you, how very true
d)joekc6nlx very true. Keeping toenails cut (at least 1 a month) helps keeping them on your foot.


cheers :rambo:

[Ivy]

Oh, sorry again by the way, but viz post above

[Genya]

There is no such thing that suck in kendo:smiley:

[Anjin-san]

Oh c'mon, lighten up. You know I only mean 'psychotic' in a sweet way :p

[Ivy]

Of course I do,
Nevertheless, I take a great pleasure in pretending I dont.

[MrUnWaki]

Not Enough Komoto San Action!!!

[Kansai Ronin]

not being able to start in the first place due to lack of time and cash.

[MiChuhSuh]

and to keep your toenails trimmed. Wolverine wouldn't make it in kendo......:silly:

Wolverine didn't have long nails, Sabortooth did!

I challenge you to X-Men monopoly! :pirate: :pirate:

[kartoffelngeist]

not going to kendo for 3 weeks because of exams...meh

[Nanbanjin]

178.
being hit on by dorky guys who only started kendo to meet women, realised that there aren no women, and then jumped on the only one they can find!

"Cute, small and furry". You sound like a pussy I knew once.

Coffee problems have been solved by the new espresso machine at work. If that fails I prefer "Deepresso" over BOSS.

[Kenzan]

Funky-sweatly-foul-smelling Bogu.
But I digress.
I *actually* like the smell of Bogu. (Clean of course)

[watanabe2k]

181. People coming up to you on your schools sports club info day and asking "Are you guys a Jedi club?"

182. Getting stuck next to the dodgeball club on sports club day and having them keep asking you "Can we throw balls at you, and you deflect them with your sword?"

183. Falling asleep in the sun at sports club day, walking up, and burning yourself on your black Do...........

[michaelm]

184. Having to explain to your co-workers that the hickey-like bruise way deep in the recesses between your adam's apple and collar bone is not from your talented wife, but from another grown man in a skirt that you got a little sloppy with.

[xvikingx]

184. Having to explain to your co-workers that the hickey-like bruise way deep in the recesses between your adam's apple and collar bone is not from your talented wife, but from another grown man in a skirt that you got a little sloppy with.

HAHAHA....:D

[Boon]

185. The fear of passing through after a cut and tripping and landing on your shinai that happens to hit you in the gut and making your contents of your stomach "pass through" yourself leaving a stain. Not a very common fear though.

[Anime12478]

186. Having a callout where you have to sit in seiza the whole time only to begin fighting after sitting there for 20 minutes as a display practice.

187. Showing kendo at an activity fair of sorts only to have a stage that is much too small for fighting made of rug.

[ga1lyons]

Ok
188. Getting STABBED in the crotch (through tare flaps) during a testing when the person is was targeting for Kote.

[Masahiro]

25. There aren't enough good looking guys.
There aren't enough good looking guys.

This is be due the fact that we don't have any good looking cheerleaders in kendo. Well except for the guys that bring their g/f's with them to tournaments. now that's a different story! hahahha

speaking of which, another thing that suck about kendo is when you have to spar against a good looking girl. in particular the ones with "dreamy" anime like eyes, when the put the men on, all you see is their eyes. and you are like.. "yari, yari... kawaii nah", and that's when they'll hit you. sigh, hahahahaha. either way you can't win!

[nikozamo]

in the chilean high performance sports gym in santiago, (the chilean kendo team and pre-selection) we practice at the side of the volleyball girls (very very good for lose the concentration) and sometimes the balls fall in our space and we just leave in that place or is really in a bad place just kick it to other place... thats it. no a big problem i think... othe problems are worst like the strange people coming to the dojo... real jedis, samurais, otakus, etc.

[Henry Jones Jnr]

189. Having a hangover and then discovering with mounting horror that Sensei is in a happy mood so during Jigekio, I find myself in an impromtu demonstration of Police Kendo.

190. Cheerfully pulling out a pink hakama and kegogi, then the one red sock that your flatmate forgot to take out from the previous wash.

191. Finding out that there is no more Stain Run Remover in the house and you have a tourney the next day.

192. Sneezing in your men, (a lot worse if you are blind in one eye and you wear one of those saftey plastic visor thingys inside your men)

193. Missing this Forum!

[Andrew S]

194. Being unable to train for nearly a week due to a single kote uchi from a 14 year old.

195. Having to explain to your students at school why your wrist is bandaged up.

196. Discovering that even at your age you CAN keep up with the school kids in keiko... until day 3.

197. Smelling like your new bogu.

198. "Men hair"