Yumi

[mystic_kendoka]

100 Lbs

ouch...

for a knife when i made my bokuto i used a simple stanley knife.. worked fine.. (too well actually.. went in too deep a couple of times..)

[Serenity]

there are only 3 dojos in my country and all of them are too far...so actually im not doing kyudo as such, i'll just be shooting japanese arrows with a japanese bow...
first i thought of european archery which would be easy to find classes for..

I thought your mum has forbidden you to take up kyudo? Be lucky about those 3 dojo´s!! I think kyudo is very interesting, I would like to try it, but the nearest dojo is 600 km away in another country?!

I did the European archery a few times and it’s fabulous , so kyudo must be 1000 times better.

Kyudo equipment is quite expensive and there is much space needed to practise (do you have enough space?) Archery is a dangerous sport, please be sure to be very carefully…

Serenity

P.S. I wish I take up kyudo.

[moetl]

Sorry, I didn't read the whole post.

seems to happen often in this forum... (ahh i'm learning so much emoticons from serenity. thanks ^^ btw. how do you like my avatar? - it's my cat sticking out it's tongue - no fake photo!)

hmm, so a bow is cut out of wood? i though you just take a flexible stick, attach a string on both ends - and voila

[Nanbanjin]

seems to happen often in this forum...

It's hard to filter the relevant material from the junk posts.

I was at high school in Japan for a year. I was in the after school kendo club, but we had another club lesson during school that was once a week. I chose kyudo with one of the Japanese guys from my class. People made it sound so boring because you have to spend months and months just learning the basic positions without even firing an arrow. It was really interesting though. Like tai-chi maybe, not that I've ever done tai-chi.
The bow actually rotates when you fire. It doesn't go straight. You pull the string right back past your face and when you let go the string pulls out the the right and rotates all the way around so it ends up on the outside of your left arm. The arrow leaves the string at the furthest point of the rotation away from you. If you just fire straight you cop the string down the inside of your left arm. Drawing the bow involves building up pressure with the left hand to produce the rotation.

I remember the kyudo teacher saying that archers (including wastern archers) always release the arrow on the outbreath. I have always thought that this was an interesting point regarding correct breathing.

[Serenity]

(ahh i'm learning so much emoticons from serenity. thanks ^^ btw. how do you like my avatar? - it's my cat sticking out it's tongue - no fake photo!)

Martina-chan your avatar is so kawaii. I like you avatar the most. Where did you get it?

The nearest kyudo dojo here around is in Wien! (Manno! Mädchen, wie geht es dir? Ich beneide dich um dein Bogu!? Das ist ja toll! Ich finde es schade, dass du mit BoguBag so eine schlechte Erfahrung gemacht hast. ) -> I’m sorry about that, but I’m still without PM´s!

Serenity

[Serenity]

there will be no torture, fast and silent... bwa ha ha ha..

but serioiusly there are a lot of cats in my neighbourhood.. i think up till now 5 times my pond/fish tank has been 'emptied' of fish... either by cats or by eagles... altogether about 20 fish... especially a month ago, i seriously considered staking out in the bushes next to the pond with a BB rifle...

I feel so sorry about your fishes. It sounds like the typical Tom & Jerry case! I have never seen how a cat fishes a gold fish from a pond. I think it’s interesting to see. My kitty is too lazy for catching… if a mouse would dance before his nose; he wouldn’t mind… those cats nowadays!

Serenity

[litige]

My kitty is too lazy for catching… if a mouse would dance before his nose; he wouldn’t mind… those cats nowadays![/font] [/font][/size]

Serenity

You should see mine with my friend the raccoon, just a light tap to the head if th raccooness gets to close.

[moetl]

hi serenity,
i've enabled the option that forum-users can send me an e-mail. just write me! then we don't have to spam this forum with our silly talk >_>