Blister Pride, just don't get it...

[nodachi]

So I had a random thought and I am procrastinating from doing my homework, so...

Why do so many people feel special or proud when they get their first few blisters from kendo? Is it just the excitement to be doing kendo and they have a happy little reminder of the practice or what? I never understand this because besides a blister being an annoying pain that is just a nuisance, it is also often an indicator of incorrect form so it is not happy to get them in that regard. So why the pride in blisters?

[Newbie]

It's both the things you mentioned - wow, I'm doing kendo and I have the blisters to prove it! and wow, I'm doing kendo and this blister that's irritating me reminds me of how cool it was last night!

But you're right, as time goes on (for me at least), blisters are an indication that I'm screwing up my footwork (again!). At least if I get them on the foot that I have my tabi on, cos that just shouldn't happen (I have disturbingly soft feet and nearly hobbled myself so friend got me tabi and it has saved me :) )

[stephanie dee]

Yeah, I consider then battle wounds. Mine tend to be really deep and bleed and mostly leave a little scar, so I try to get as much sympathy as possible, which doesnt really happen...

So when i'm hobbling down the way and i see an old friend and they say to me "whats wrong with your foot?" I tend to say "Oh, it's nothing, I just got beat up in (over exagerated swish of the hair)... Kendo...." To which they normally reply "Kendo? Whats the hell's that..."

[Kendo-Militia]

So I had a random thought and I am procrastinating from doing my homework, so...

Why do so many people feel special or proud when they get their first few blisters from kendo? Is it just the excitement to be doing kendo and they have a happy little reminder of the practice or what? I never understand this because besides a blister being an annoying pain that is just a nuisance, it is also often an indicator of incorrect form so it is not happy to get them in that regard. So why the pride in blisters?


It's kinda like for men growing facial hair. You think your an adult now without knowing it's a pain in the butt to shave.

[Kitsune]

It's weird but when I get mine in my hands (more like callus) I felt like I was Hajime Saito (HAHAHAHA) it was like fine I'm doing this ok otherwise I won't have this.:silly:

[Halcyon]

Yep. Definitely a pride-in-battle-scars thing. Well described in "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk, and in the movie of the same name.

[Penguin Rush]

It's kinda like for men growing facial hair. You think your an adult now without knowing it's a pain in the butt to shave.

Nice comment!

[Paikea]

It's kinda like for men growing facial hair. You think your an adult now without knowing it's a pain in the butt to shave.We're supposed to shave?

[Kendo-Militia]

We're supposed to shave?

Of course but that brazilian airstrip is hard to do. HAHAHA

[Kitsune]

Of course but that brazilian airstrip is hard to do. HAHAHA


You don't have any idea...:silly:

[Villageidiot]

Blisters, bruises and missed cuts all translate as battle wounds in my world :p

[Ignatz]

You don't have any idea...:silly:
You're right, I need much more practice.

[Kendo-Militia]

You don't have any idea...:silly:

Especially when i am holding the razor by my mouth. HAHAHA

[Hai_hai]

I do not have blister pride. Blisters ruin my kendo. I may have taped up blister pride.

[Paikea]

Especially when i am holding the razor by my mouth. HAHAHANow, there's an image I don't need in my head.

[Kendo-Militia]

Now, there's an image I don't need in my head.

Hey I'm flexable. Wait you thought I held razor in mouth to shave a woman? Wow what a thought. HAHAHA

[LarsCW]

For me I don't know if there was real pride I don't remember but I really did enjoy the start of kendo. The part of walking barefooted at home helped alot in blister prevention I think and Luckily I haven't had any yet on my hands.

*taps blank wood virtually*

[Hai_hai]

We're supposed to shave?
Hai
Everything! Beard, moustache, head, ear, nose, arm pits, legs, arms and eye brows. What kack-a-may-mee McDojo do you belong to?

[Alison2805]

nose????? HAHAHAHA!!! Never seen someone with a hairy nose before....

[Hai_hai]

nose????? HAHAHAHA!!! Never seen someone with a hairy nose before....
Nostrils to be exact.
If one has a mole on his/her nose, hairs can grow out that also.

[runsyi]

Of course but that brazilian airstrip is hard to do. HAHAHA

That's because you're supposed to get it waxed.

[Kendo-Militia]

That's because you're supposed to get it waxed.

Ouch........

[Paikea]

Hai
Everything! Beard, moustache, head, ear, nose, arm pits, legs, arms and eye brows. What kack-a-may-mee McDojo do you belong to?Why, the finest dojo in the entire Portland Metro area, of course.

You ain't getting my beard.

[Alison2805]

the funniest thing I ever saw was a guy trying to pluck the hairs out of his nostrils. I dare you guys to try it without crying!!

[dohrt]

Plucking one's nosehair can be accomplished in the following manner without producing tears:

- Grab tightly a single hair in a pair of tweezers
- place the tip of one finger against the flesh at the base of the hair that has been tweezed
- very slowly, but very firmly being to pull, making sure to hold the flesh down with the point of the finger

This will provide a nose hair pulled along with the white gunk from the hair root, without tearing or wild pain - just a slight twinge of the senses as the hair root fractures from it's mooring.

[Kendo-Militia]

the funniest thing I ever saw was a guy trying to pluck the hairs out of his nostrils. I dare you guys to try it without crying!!

Hell no. You pull them and you cry or sneeze. Or you can be lazy and grow a moustache. It hides the nose hairs. Next time you see a guy with a moustache, look carefully, your bound to see nose hairs.