On the matter of Professionalism.
Being of an educated background to some extent, it would be expected that I would possess some degree of professionalism. I believe I do, and no-one has yet brought it to my attention that I am lacking it. That said, if you are already working in a job, especially in particular jobs, there should be some degree of professionalism within you. I have discovered that is not the case. It was brought to my attention that there were some communications being pushed around the place by some people that were not quite up to standard, and when I was shown one of these, I was absolutely horrified. The manner of the email was written in speech-like fashion, and not only that but was very colloquial. I am sorry to say, that is just unacceptable for a 'official' type of correspondence between organisations.... Lift your game folks, and be more professional.
Anyway, today was a fairly light day.
I started on the clay project work, and well, I have discovered how hard it is to cut clay cleanly. With a new sharp razor blade, you get about 3 cuts and that is it, chuck it, onto a new blade. Quite frustrating to try to cut the clay so it doesn't squish and lose the structural orientation that you want to keep.... Took me about 90minutes to get the clay cut and sitting into the first step of the schedule of resin embedding. The schedule is quite full on, so it will be about two weeks or so and a lot of resin before the process is finished.
Onto Kendo (which seems to be of course the large majority of my blog these days LOL).
Warmup as usual, this time trying to get the beginners to do more hayasuburi than their usual 100 or so, well, their kiai still needs more work, though I feel that the bogu players sometimes get unfairly dissed about their kiai when it is not as bad as it is claimed to be.... Anyway, we ended up doing about 240 or so hayasuburi due to whichever girl who didn't have loud enough kiai and we had to start over again.
In bogu training, we focused on men cuts only again. It was someone else leading though and although it was good to focus on just men cuts, he didn't really pay attention/teach like the other guy does and did in the previous session I spoke of. We just did a lot of cuts and rotated through. Still good practice, but not as good as if you get picked up on if you're still doing something wrong etc.
In jigeiko, I got to play 3 people. Didn't really score any hits nicely as I would have liked except one or two randomly here and there, not that they were very good points either. Just one highlight today though was a semi-jodan men cut. I dodged a tsuki by shifting and leaning backwards and on my forward motion, I did the one handed jodan style men cut and it was good. The fumikomi was poor and on the wrong foot, but the hit itself was good so I was kind of happy at that.
I used two of the new shinai today. The Bishamon and the Ittou Sai. The bishamon moves nicely. It feels light in comparison to my deluxe from Online Kendo, and is very straight. The cuts are solid and feels like I can apply more pressure on the cut. The thicker grip is also easy to hold. The ittou sai, hmm, well, it is tip heavy. The thin grip is ok to hold, but doesn't provide good grip or feel of control. It cuts well, with the heavy feeling tip, but impedes fast cuts, and I actually even cut short (i.e. I stop the cut before it even hits the target area) indicating the difference in balance compared with the bishamon that I had been using earlier to it. I will probably try it some more to see how it goes in different situations and what not before full judgement is passed upon it. Also, will give the kyotou eizan a burl too, probably on Friday.
Man, I am really sore though.....
Being of an educated background to some extent, it would be expected that I would possess some degree of professionalism. I believe I do, and no-one has yet brought it to my attention that I am lacking it. That said, if you are already working in a job, especially in particular jobs, there should be some degree of professionalism within you. I have discovered that is not the case. It was brought to my attention that there were some communications being pushed around the place by some people that were not quite up to standard, and when I was shown one of these, I was absolutely horrified. The manner of the email was written in speech-like fashion, and not only that but was very colloquial. I am sorry to say, that is just unacceptable for a 'official' type of correspondence between organisations.... Lift your game folks, and be more professional.
Anyway, today was a fairly light day.
I started on the clay project work, and well, I have discovered how hard it is to cut clay cleanly. With a new sharp razor blade, you get about 3 cuts and that is it, chuck it, onto a new blade. Quite frustrating to try to cut the clay so it doesn't squish and lose the structural orientation that you want to keep.... Took me about 90minutes to get the clay cut and sitting into the first step of the schedule of resin embedding. The schedule is quite full on, so it will be about two weeks or so and a lot of resin before the process is finished.
Onto Kendo (which seems to be of course the large majority of my blog these days LOL).
Warmup as usual, this time trying to get the beginners to do more hayasuburi than their usual 100 or so, well, their kiai still needs more work, though I feel that the bogu players sometimes get unfairly dissed about their kiai when it is not as bad as it is claimed to be.... Anyway, we ended up doing about 240 or so hayasuburi due to whichever girl who didn't have loud enough kiai and we had to start over again.
In bogu training, we focused on men cuts only again. It was someone else leading though and although it was good to focus on just men cuts, he didn't really pay attention/teach like the other guy does and did in the previous session I spoke of. We just did a lot of cuts and rotated through. Still good practice, but not as good as if you get picked up on if you're still doing something wrong etc.
In jigeiko, I got to play 3 people. Didn't really score any hits nicely as I would have liked except one or two randomly here and there, not that they were very good points either. Just one highlight today though was a semi-jodan men cut. I dodged a tsuki by shifting and leaning backwards and on my forward motion, I did the one handed jodan style men cut and it was good. The fumikomi was poor and on the wrong foot, but the hit itself was good so I was kind of happy at that.
I used two of the new shinai today. The Bishamon and the Ittou Sai. The bishamon moves nicely. It feels light in comparison to my deluxe from Online Kendo, and is very straight. The cuts are solid and feels like I can apply more pressure on the cut. The thicker grip is also easy to hold. The ittou sai, hmm, well, it is tip heavy. The thin grip is ok to hold, but doesn't provide good grip or feel of control. It cuts well, with the heavy feeling tip, but impedes fast cuts, and I actually even cut short (i.e. I stop the cut before it even hits the target area) indicating the difference in balance compared with the bishamon that I had been using earlier to it. I will probably try it some more to see how it goes in different situations and what not before full judgement is passed upon it. Also, will give the kyotou eizan a burl too, probably on Friday.
Man, I am really sore though.....
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