Stupidity

[Charuzu]

'ello, ^o^

I have a funny story to tell you all. Some dimmwit in my school thinks that he could easily ownzor me in a dual with a sword

In his own words

"own u mo fuc*aaa" had him type that

Should I kick his ass like the bitch he is ??

[Charuzu]

PS - I appoligize for swearing < (_ _) >

[Anjin-san]

With a real sword? Good plan genius!

[Charuzu]

With a real sword? Good plan genius!

Of course not with a real sword. That what he said he wanted (see... he is a retarded)

If I do it I'll force him to use a goshin-ken (Those padded Chanbara swords)

[Ken Morgan]

And the productive point of this dual would be???

Who cares? Get out and practice in the dojo, eat, have fun with girls, watch cool movies, study. There are a great deal more important things in life then shutting some monkey up just to satisfy an ego.

[Berugijin]

Shinken shoubu. In a cage. With barbed wire. And masks and tight shorts.

[Charuzu]

And the productive point of this dual would be???

Who cares? Get out and practice in the dojo, eat, have fun with girls, watch cool movies, study. There are a great deal more important things in life then shutting some monkey up just to satisfy an ego.

I guess your right. To be compleatly honest I lost track of the reason why I was training in the 1st place. But don't you just wish that you could get rid of people like this? How do you deal with it when people make fun of you for studying japanese swordsmanship?

On the bright side of things I might be having 2 of the students join the dojo ^o^
I also found our dojo on Saruta Mitsuhiro's site.
Also, the girl that was supporting me is very cute #^o^#. Mabie I should ask her out sometime (same person who wants to join the Dojo ^o^)

[kendonewbie]

Funny you should put this up...I was just thinking of a story that would go perfectly with this.

[kendonewbie]

Sorry about the double post..., hit the post button accidently on the first one...and editing took more than 5 minutes to write this.

Anyway, the story. I used to live in an area with no kendo dojos. The closest thing was a taekwondo dojo about 45 minutes away (driving, on the highway). Anyway, I decided to look around my school for people that might be able to teach me kendo. Found someone, one of my workout buddies, turns out. Before teaching me he asked "have you ever taken kendo before" and about an hour later "have you ever seen ruruoni kenshin". I said no to both (was completely honest).

"Kendo" lessons were...odd. The guys stances were odd, his footwork and timing were off...but I didn't say anything. A month or so later, I decided to go to the bookstore and add a few ruruoni kenshins to my manga collection. Open them up and "Hey! doesn't this look familiar!" Thats right. They guy had taugh himself kendo by reading ruruoni kenshin. Worse, he was teaching other people "kendo"..I wasn't the only person he taught.

Along with "kendo", had also taught MA after school (taekwondo, caporiea, and jeet kun do?). I asked to spar with him (MA, not kendo). Being the overconfident person he was, he accepted. It was pathetic. I was wiping the gym with him, and wasn't even trying very hard. At first, he tried caporiea. He did this weird movement back and forth (jenga?) which was slow, and left him very wide open and in an awkward position. Then Jeet kun do. Not any better. Finally, taekwondo....I'm not going into details, but he lost very badly, and somehow injuried his right hand in the process. After that, he stopped teaching his crap to other people. Shame. He was planning on opening a brilliant McDojo one of these days......

Soo...my answer would be...its up to you. If you do spar with the guy, its possible he'll be like my former instructor. Note: he won't be fighting by the offical kendo rules...he'll probably just swing the sword around where ever the hell he wants.

[Ken Morgan]

I guess your right. To be compleatly honest I lost track of the reason why I was training in the 1st place. But don't you just wish that you could get rid of people like this? How do you deal with it when people make fun of you for studying japanese swordsmanship?

I've never had anyone laugh at me because of JSA. (Lots of other things but not JSA)
It's just my cool hobby, and everyone has a weird hobby. I know people who do the model train thing, another guy who raises flowers for shows, pottery, whatever floats your boat.
I invite everyone out to the dojo when they give me a strange look, sometimes they show up, sometimes they don't.
One piece of advice my Dad gave me..."Never give a shit what other people think of you." And I never do....

[Charuzu]

I've never had anyone laugh at me because of JSA. (Lots of other things but not JSA)
It's just my cool hobby, and everyone has a weird hobby. I know people who do the model train thing, another guy who raises flowers for shows, pottery, whatever floats your boat.
I invite everyone out to the dojo when they give me a strange look, sometimes they show up, sometimes they don't.
One piece of advice my Dad gave me..."Never give a shit what other people think of you." And I never do....

Yes but it seems so hard to keep face when you have a bunch of idiots following you and making fun of you. You just want to make them shut-up at any cost. ヽ(｀Д´)ﾉ

Well what can I say.... It sucks to be on the bottem of the food chain
⊂⌒~⊃｡Д｡)⊃

[pgsmith]

Yes but it seems so hard to keep face when you have a bunch of idiots following you and making fun of you.

If you are worried about "keeping face", then I suggest that you have far worse problems to work out than people giving you a hard time about kendo.

One piece of advice my Dad gave me..."Never give a shit what other people think of you."

That is a real gem right there. My Mom used to tell me something very similar when I was younger. Whenever I complained about what others were doing or saying she would ask the dreaded "questions" ... Do they pay for your groceries? Can they throw you out of your home and into the street? No? Then anything they have to say is irrelevant to your life unless you choose to give them relevancy!

Yep, my Mum is a strange old bird, but she's pretty darn smart!

[Charuzu]

If you are worried about "keeping face", then I suggest that you have far worse problems to work out than people giving you a hard time about kendo.

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[Jacynth]

Kill Him...

[kendonewbie]

[QUOTE=Charuzu]Yes but it seems so hard to keep face when you have a bunch of idiots following you and making fun of you. You just want to make them shut-up at any cost. ヽ(｀Д´)ﾉQUOTE]

Picking fights with people like that really isn't going to solve anything. I never really cared what other people thought of me. Theres always going to be some asshole out there who doesn't like you. Worrying about what other people think about you is just going to cause more problems (ex anxiety). Don't let other peoples opinions bother you. Think of it this way: once you graduate from high school you'll never have to see any of them again (provided you all go to different colleges).