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Showing posts with label cutting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cutting. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 April 2009
Martial Arts Festival - iai
This demo was lead by Hanshi Mike Selvey and as well as some iaido kata the guys treated us to some iai-jutsu kata and koryu kata as well as some tameshigiri (test cutting)-always interesting to see! The dojo site can be found here: www.tenshin-ryu.co.uk
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Despondent days
–adjective.
feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom.
Feeling sorry for myself as I've been getting more stick about my cutting technique in iai.
Cheesed off as it's been nearly 3 years since I started and it seems that I'm *still* not doing the basic cutting correctly. This is really the core of iai too!
So I spent 20 minutes in the garden the other day cutting into a punchbag posed atop the wheelie bin with a shinai. Gave me some succour, but I need to keep practising.
And I need to keep taking the criticism on the chin and working on it.
Still feel sorry for myself....
feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom.
Feeling sorry for myself as I've been getting more stick about my cutting technique in iai.
Cheesed off as it's been nearly 3 years since I started and it seems that I'm *still* not doing the basic cutting correctly. This is really the core of iai too!
So I spent 20 minutes in the garden the other day cutting into a punchbag posed atop the wheelie bin with a shinai. Gave me some succour, but I need to keep practising.
And I need to keep taking the criticism on the chin and working on it.
Still feel sorry for myself....
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