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Hi all,

The upcoming issue of Kendo-World will include an article featuring this documentary about a man who is attempting to track down the owner of a Japanese sword his grandfather brought back...

muwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahaha

Kangeiko is a special practice that happens in the winter, after New Years and lasts about 2 weeks. When I was there the judo guys were made to jog and then swim in the ocean. For kendo, we woke up...

I was there a few years ago and I occasionally talk to people who've been since then. My overall impression is that things are getting a bit better there - the Evil Dream Team that was in the office...

i got tricked into eating whale sashimi early on by a kendo sensei. He was all casual like 'do you like fish?' eyeing it skeptically i ax what is it and he goes into high gear like 'eat it eat it...

[QUOTE=satsumaruma;374335]So....

The Scots drink a lot huh?

and so do the Irish......and the French.



Does living next to the English drive people to drink???:eek::silly:
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/4781288/Scots-drink-the-equivalent-of-125-bottles-of-wine-each-per-year-study-reveals.html

also the University of Waterloo Kendo Club, about a 30 minute drive from Guelph. I'm not sure of the current status of the Guelph club, but UW kendo is in full swing.

funny story from my dojo in canada - I wasn't there, but a team from my club in Ontario went down to the US, I think for the Harvard shiai but I'm not sure. Anyways, going into the US they were...

'I designed it to sell rather alot of copies.'

Genius. What we're dealing with here is a genius, a poet who has chosen the path of being annoying to hone his linguistic faculty. We imagine this...

hahahah YES. That was awesome.

I watched Planet Earth over the holidays. At one point, in the Great Plains episode, and in that hushed tone he uses that makes me think he does a shot of Beefeater...

Absolutely. I've known 4 people personally who do kendo with missing limbs. Some use prosthetics and some do not. There are people involved in engineering kendo-specific prosthetics as well.
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Probably like a king.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728209836&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Clearly my 'photo face' isn't working out for me. I'm glad you documented my glorious if short lived battle with The Prime Denominator. Nice pics Uly

Quick and small correction - Akihabara is certainly a freakshow, but Meiji Shrine is not in the heart of it. The Meiji Shrine is in Harajuku, which is its own kind of weird.

Nice article. I had a similar experience too – I had just bought a new men that I was sporting for the first time and a Sensei I was about to engage said in Japanese `oh, new men! Psycho!`.

I was...

To get your dome blown in the comforts of your own home I highly recommend Madvillain (MF DOOM/Madlib). Positively cavernous beat.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=ewc1hixzYPY

For jazz, mining the...

I can see how ‘every time’ could get a bit nuts though. Where I practice, there is a long kihon section before the ji-geiko where we form groups from 2-4 people and rotate within the group. It starts...

I like the points about etiquette acting as a sort of cue, getting serious and in the zone before the match technically begins.

If some of the etiquette in kendo seems ornamental, I think it’s...

I worked for Octoberfest one summer when I was young at the strange Castle HQ in Kitchener. They have old boxes of photographs in the basement and when I wasn't sorting dyed ostrich feathers I rooted...

and you shall have it sir! I personally pledge to perform a body-slam on the first rap-scallion to run afoul of me. Those who know me can attest to my hulking frame and sheer physical power. Other...

Just to be really really clear, I'm fully kidding with the above insults. I only know maybe 5 or 6 people of everyone attending and they're great folk.

But in the interest of generating some WWF...

It was noted last week during some after practice re-hydration that there is a marked absence of spite, vitriolic barbs and general trash talk in this thread. It is entirely unfitting for a bunch of...

A modest....suggestion, if i may. When times get tuff, why not eat babies?

If Ireland had only taken a pro-babyeating stance when J.Swift tabled the suggestion just over a hundred years before the...

egads, if it conjured that image at 9:20AM, dare I ax what it makes you think of now?