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Sorry.. I thought you were asking a serious question..
I've gone back and reread your original post:


Since this is shinpan practice and a kids' team match, this is a learning opportunity for...

This was my thought as I was reading the OP, notwithstanding the specifics of the scenario...

quite frankly, the easiest thing to do is simply to email them and ask them...

Hey yo... V.Lee --- congrats on 1st place Mudansha at the Nabeshima Taikai this past weekend... very nice work and good final match!!

Scott -- I've got the same beni-tame dodai from ebogu.. Needless to say, I was shocked when I opened it because i thought they'd accidentally sent me the wrong color. It was, unfortunately, much...

I agree with Cailin...

yup..
The total cost of that particular Do would be $550...

i have decided that the longer i do kendo, the less i care about what somebody's dodai looks like... but that's just me...

(I keep looking at the original link provided)...

I think if you would like something that looks nice (looks nice to me, anyway) and would maybe hide scratches from getting hit, it seems like the...

btw... @rainmaker -- If you ever decide to go with the plain "tame" color (KHD-11 on the link you gave), that looks identical to the color I ordered from ebogu a few years ago... I will say only...

Cailin -- Actually, the one I saw in Dallas, I asked her "This is the red one, yes?" and she responded that it was actually the BROWN color... and when she said that, THEN I could 'see' it was brown,...

Cha tataki... Saw one this weekend in Dallas and thought it was fantastic...

4.dan

Aha.. here we go...

For competitor:
In case of Fusen-gachi (victory awarded due to opponent's default or dismissal), Shiai-sha (the competitors) shall proceed to Kaishi-sen (the set line), take...

If I were shu-shin and somebody did something that unquestionably warranted a DQ, I'm not quite sure what I would do, other than call yame, raise the flag for X, and then holla out shobu-ari... and...

my 3.dan+ division experience started off like that about 8ish years ago and never has changed! :)
I'm admittedly a horrible tournament player, except in team play, where I have a pretty decent...

makes a lot of sense.. and I especially like your advice from moocow, which certainly reminds me of advice I've gotten elsewhere, too.. "don't make it more complicated than it really needs to be."
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this is a great thread with some great responses from more experienced folks..

I really feel like reiterating hugo's first response about 'comes with experience'.. which certainly does not...

Paul,
Yes, exactly. This is what my rulebook says and what I've referred to, too... (and what I believe maybe someone else on page 1 or 2 mentioned.. maybe it was Neil)

In my FIK "The...

thanks for that clarification! .. the original video said it was Switzerland, but the EKC website listed switzerland with the typical "SUI", I believe.. i couldn't figure out the "CHE" myself, so...

That thought also crossed my mind very strongly.



Aside from everything else, I thought that gyaku-do looked very good.. although maybe a little iffy on the zanshin.. but I thought, on its own,...

I certainly hope the FIK takes a look at that video --- which, SURPRISE SURPRISE is now 'private' on youtube and can no longer be accessed.

The only thing I can figure out for the shinpan decision...

I would have DQ'd that, and would not even have thought twice about it.

when I get back to a real computer and I'm not logging from phone...

Neil.. Remind me to tell you sometime about a really stupid, freak accident at one of our normal practices, and a student who decided to lawyer up....

ScottH .. FWIW, Memphis (SEUSKF) and Little Rock (SWKIF) are both currently shut down til it all gets resolved. I've heard of other individual dojos doing the same, but I don't know for sure which...