Today was a relatively nice day.
I didn't sleep well, so instead of lazing about bed, I got up early and drove in for Kendo. Being early of course meant lots of waiting time and I didn't really feel like doing work at the EMU yet, so instead I decided to settle on watching some AFL that was being played on Oval Number 1.
The match was between Sydney Uni and UTS from what I could tell, but it was obviously not first grade because their uniforms weren't the prestige colours that Sydney Uni usually has. I have never actually watched a live AFL game before, and it was interesting. Quite fun to watch. It's very messy in terms of game action, lots of running around, kicking, grabbing, pushing around, I can imagine how messy it would be if the ground was wet and muddy..... very entertaining.
That game took a while, nearly an hour and I believe Sydney Uni won that game. There were some brilliant moments and I clapped out aloud for it. I can see why some people like the game LOL.
Kendo training today was, ugh. Really, the best way to describe it would be very tiring. We had a rather short warmup period because we kind of started late, and then we got kind of told off for staring late. I think our instructor is starting to get a big head sometimes. If he's there, why on earth does he have to wait or ask someone else to lead warmup? Is it above his own station to start it?..... I think not, but that is my opinion. We did warmup and then the bogu players and beginner split off as usual. Then the bogu players had to do 300 hayasuburi. Well, that is fine, but he wanted us to do it at some speed of his because apparently slow takes more energy. I actually disagree to some extent. Both fast and slow takes more energy than a medium pace. I can do 300 in a row, I've done it now twice, Monday and Friday this week. But, for us to do it after footwork tiring us out, and then at his wanted changing pace because people were doing it at different pace counting, no way. Once we did it again at a more uniform pace, it was much better. He says that as a bogu player, you should be able to do at least 300, if not 400. Possibly true, but not everyone has that kind of stamina and fitness level yet, and well, I think to ask us to do it in one block may push it too far one day.... Anyway, that's just my opinion. Fitness is important yes, but if you're going to push it like that, it is a fine line. I had problems training waza training a little because I had no strength left in my arms and hands from it, and I'm glad I didn't eat anything relatively before training because I probably wouldn't have kept it all down even post digestion period.....
Waza training was short, just kirikaeshi, short men, short kote, short doh, short kote men. Then about an hour of jigekiko. We had some visitors today, so we had pretty much almost the entire jigeiko time as rotational instead of free. I got to play quite a few obviously and it was good but very very very tiring. By the end of it, making cuts was really hard LOL.
Post training, I got a video off someone who had filmed me playing him on his digital camera at 30fps. 1:33 in length and it was 116mb, like, whoa. Anyway, I got that onto my USB stick, and also collected my three new shinais from the Sankei order I had made. They felt nice ^^ So tomorrow I will take them apart to sand lightly and oil lightly before putting them back together again for use on Monday if I can.
I buggered off to Fisher library to deliver some chinese festival dumpling food to a long time friend of mine and had a nice catch up on things before heading downtown to get my haircut that I needed for the job application photo. Went to Kippo, just off Central, for a $40 haircut. I've been there once before and they did quite a nice job, and I felt it was value though other people say it's not. Got my hair washed, cut, thinned, styled, then rinsed, then waxed/hairspray. The new cut is my facebook picture if you have me, if you don't, then well, you're welcome to be my friend =)
Called up some of the kendo people and joined them to play a little bit of LAN. We played one match of StarCraft Broodwar, and I got smashed. 2nd one to die. I had never played Protoss before and well, I got Terran Mobbed LOL. Then, we played a game called Rome Total War. Interesting game. It's a RTS (real time strategy) but you don't build anything. You get a budget and you can select units, then place them, and in real time maneuver them around to attack units, flank etc. Well, we had a free for all, and being me, I sucked and was the first army out of five to get smashed. Seeing out the rest of the fight was interesting but the map was huge and it did take a while. Having a solid idea of your units and tactics seemed like the way to go LOL. We played another round of it, but as a co-op map holding a city in defense against invading CPU armies. We finished that one much quicker with some interesting results. Trying to find something else to play was a little bit difficult cos two of the people left, so we ended up running a few races in Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Then went home.
Aye, a long day.
I'm tired.
Sunday, hooray ^^
I didn't sleep well, so instead of lazing about bed, I got up early and drove in for Kendo. Being early of course meant lots of waiting time and I didn't really feel like doing work at the EMU yet, so instead I decided to settle on watching some AFL that was being played on Oval Number 1.
The match was between Sydney Uni and UTS from what I could tell, but it was obviously not first grade because their uniforms weren't the prestige colours that Sydney Uni usually has. I have never actually watched a live AFL game before, and it was interesting. Quite fun to watch. It's very messy in terms of game action, lots of running around, kicking, grabbing, pushing around, I can imagine how messy it would be if the ground was wet and muddy..... very entertaining.
That game took a while, nearly an hour and I believe Sydney Uni won that game. There were some brilliant moments and I clapped out aloud for it. I can see why some people like the game LOL.
Kendo training today was, ugh. Really, the best way to describe it would be very tiring. We had a rather short warmup period because we kind of started late, and then we got kind of told off for staring late. I think our instructor is starting to get a big head sometimes. If he's there, why on earth does he have to wait or ask someone else to lead warmup? Is it above his own station to start it?..... I think not, but that is my opinion. We did warmup and then the bogu players and beginner split off as usual. Then the bogu players had to do 300 hayasuburi. Well, that is fine, but he wanted us to do it at some speed of his because apparently slow takes more energy. I actually disagree to some extent. Both fast and slow takes more energy than a medium pace. I can do 300 in a row, I've done it now twice, Monday and Friday this week. But, for us to do it after footwork tiring us out, and then at his wanted changing pace because people were doing it at different pace counting, no way. Once we did it again at a more uniform pace, it was much better. He says that as a bogu player, you should be able to do at least 300, if not 400. Possibly true, but not everyone has that kind of stamina and fitness level yet, and well, I think to ask us to do it in one block may push it too far one day.... Anyway, that's just my opinion. Fitness is important yes, but if you're going to push it like that, it is a fine line. I had problems training waza training a little because I had no strength left in my arms and hands from it, and I'm glad I didn't eat anything relatively before training because I probably wouldn't have kept it all down even post digestion period.....
Waza training was short, just kirikaeshi, short men, short kote, short doh, short kote men. Then about an hour of jigekiko. We had some visitors today, so we had pretty much almost the entire jigeiko time as rotational instead of free. I got to play quite a few obviously and it was good but very very very tiring. By the end of it, making cuts was really hard LOL.
Post training, I got a video off someone who had filmed me playing him on his digital camera at 30fps. 1:33 in length and it was 116mb, like, whoa. Anyway, I got that onto my USB stick, and also collected my three new shinais from the Sankei order I had made. They felt nice ^^ So tomorrow I will take them apart to sand lightly and oil lightly before putting them back together again for use on Monday if I can.
I buggered off to Fisher library to deliver some chinese festival dumpling food to a long time friend of mine and had a nice catch up on things before heading downtown to get my haircut that I needed for the job application photo. Went to Kippo, just off Central, for a $40 haircut. I've been there once before and they did quite a nice job, and I felt it was value though other people say it's not. Got my hair washed, cut, thinned, styled, then rinsed, then waxed/hairspray. The new cut is my facebook picture if you have me, if you don't, then well, you're welcome to be my friend =)
Called up some of the kendo people and joined them to play a little bit of LAN. We played one match of StarCraft Broodwar, and I got smashed. 2nd one to die. I had never played Protoss before and well, I got Terran Mobbed LOL. Then, we played a game called Rome Total War. Interesting game. It's a RTS (real time strategy) but you don't build anything. You get a budget and you can select units, then place them, and in real time maneuver them around to attack units, flank etc. Well, we had a free for all, and being me, I sucked and was the first army out of five to get smashed. Seeing out the rest of the fight was interesting but the map was huge and it did take a while. Having a solid idea of your units and tactics seemed like the way to go LOL. We played another round of it, but as a co-op map holding a city in defense against invading CPU armies. We finished that one much quicker with some interesting results. Trying to find something else to play was a little bit difficult cos two of the people left, so we ended up running a few races in Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Then went home.
Aye, a long day.
I'm tired.
Sunday, hooray ^^
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