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Your typos usually aren't this funny.

Wrestling and boxing (and fencing, etc) are verbs - therefore you wrestle or box. But you don't tennis or football. It's all semantics - play is just a word.

As far as the word "play" goes - in English it's used for almost anything where people are set against each other. I've seen people playing tennis who are much more serious than some kendoka I've...

I call bullshit. Almost every one of your posts has been filled with disrespect.

But, you know, no disrespect - just a reality check.

You probably mean the heat index. This is just a small piece of interesting trivia that I carry around so I can be a prick when people bring it up:

It has never officially reached 100°F in Miami....

I hemmed one of my hakama by hand. Granted, I'm not proficient at sewing, but it took me hours (about 4 hours of actual sewing). I dropped off my second one at the tailor the next day.

Ebihara-sensei at KenZen is top-notch as well. If you're closer to KenZen, check it out - you'd be missing out by not going there, too. Very well respected school.

Eww. That page just made me sick.

Barf-colored belt

"The pine tree is now beginning to realize that it has no roots."

The student has recently had experience with traditional martial arts...

If you're looking to hold your own in "international competition", then mid-thirties is a little late to start any sport. But if you do kendo for the martial art aspect of it and just enjoy the...

Maybe he means actual calories instead of kcal, and he eats a peanut butter sandwich while riding. That would make sense.

I wear tabi over a metatarsal pad I tape onto my left foot. I started doing this 2 or 3 years into my kendo timeline, after being diagnosed with an encapsulated 2nd metatarsal joint (after about 9...

"Deck Chairs" by Paddy O'Farnichur

Ooooo.

"Interior Flooring Design" by Walter Walcarpitz
"Tiger Attack! - A True Story" by Claude Balz


Is that Dick Hertz from Holden? Maybe not.

Yes, there's a side door at the parking lot level. Just pop in and go all the way up the stairs (or all the way down the stairs for pre-class on Mondays). Good luck - hope to see you some time.

Was going to do a PM, but, for the record:

I train at Doshikai on Monday nights, kendo and iaido. Parking has been an issue recently, so if possible, park on the road leading to the train station...

I don't see the differences as much as you do, I guess. The footwork is wider, but it's the same basically. In seitei Mae (and a few others) beginners are even taught to stomp the foot at the end...

I said iaido would directly help, since it is the same footwork, the same cutting motions and the same straight lines of movement. In more advanced practice, iaido is also all about seme, zanshin,...

Iai is the sword thingy. I think I remember you said you go to KenZen. Parker-sensei teaches iai there and she rocks. Good opportunity for you.

It's not aerobic like kendo - it's more like...

You mean I can't really dance?!?

I'll have to think about this.

Perhaps your only option would be the very aptly named vanity press.

Cat, if you're interested in kendo at all, you're close to Shodokan dojo in Salem, which has a great kendo group (with a few members on here). Really a good opportunity. As for iai, I'm partial to...

How can something that feels so Wright, be so, wrong?

I've seen unranked people test for 1-kyu in AEUSKF and pass, or be given 2- or 3-kyu as if it were an open test. I also know that some sensei are against unranked testing for 1-kyu. So, you should...

I could be wrong, then. But I've usually seen it as a serious sport along the lines of crew. If you're interested in it, then go for it in any case. College club sports are a blast.

Even in the university that I went to (small), club fencing was a serious sport involving daily practices with lots of cardio and strength training. So, unless I'm wrong, "casually" is not a real...