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A Kendo Experiment

Because life is an experiment and kendo is a part of my life.

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    All Of You I Won't Practice With

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    , 12th October 2009 at 07:31 AM (A Kendo Experiment)
    Lately, I have been working on a budo related website and more actively on the kendo part of it. This week end, I was organizing the 'find a dojo' pages using Dwez's maps and I couldn't stop thinking how outstanding it was to see how many kendo clubs there are in the world.

    I saw maps of countries I didn't know before such as Latvia and other countries that i knew of but was suprised to see kendo clubs in. And it got me thinking of all the people going to practice and working towards ...

    Updated 13th October 2009 at 10:20 AM by Aurélien

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    Physio Kendo

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    , 29th September 2009 at 10:23 AM (A Kendo Experiment)
    I've had some issues with my lower and upper spine (neck area) lately. The lower part gets sore after too much effort and my neck is jutted forward - which is a bit of a worry when it comes to receiving tsuki. I quickly realized that my past and present use of my body (lifting heavy stuff, sitting and so on...) is the opposite of healthy and efficient.

    What is then healthy and efficient?

    Well, the basic kendo posture is so far the best I could think of. Let's take our ...

    Updated 29th September 2009 at 01:13 PM by Aurélien

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    Say it and it will happen (mostly)

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    , 24th September 2009 at 08:09 PM (A Kendo Experiment)
    I recently found that the law to negativism always wins.

    Last monday, before a fight during shiai practice, one of my dojo mates who found out who was his opponent said: 'Oh no! I'm going to lose!'. Well, he did...

    Last Tuesday, just before Jigeiko, another dojo mate said (while seeing the unusually high amount of higher grade on that day): 'I'm going get my ass handed to me', and it undoubtedly happened so...

    There I am not trying to criticize their ...
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    A Kendo Experiment

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    Aurélien
    , 10th August 2009 at 04:07 PM (A Kendo Experiment)
    A blog, writing about kendo, not today's practice or tomorow's worries but something meaningful, not only to me but hopefully to others.

    Life is an experiment, sometimes it works and sometimes is doesn't. I think that kendo is just the same. We try, we fail, we try again and we are successfull (THAT'S A PICTURE!!!!! Try a hundred). What matters the most is what we come out with in our failures and the uplifting feeling coming out of our successes. I love to experiment and if it fails, ...
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