I attended the second Chiba Sensei seminar today at our dojo today. He apparently was a little tired after sight-seeing earlier in the day with a few people. I found out that he is 62 years old and has been doing Kendo for about 50 years.... so he started when he was 12.... I wish I could have done a lot of things when I was at that age...
The seminar didn't really have anything new compared to what he taught yesterday. We went over a little less, and in less detail because of the time constraints but I still learnt one thing, well, two things really thinking about it. Learning at least one thing is the best part of something like this.
I learnt a little more about Chudan no Kamae, and also how to do a little waza in terms of cut speed (under the shinai vs over the shinai). Oh, and also grip on the shinai, so I guess that is 2.5 things since it was taught yesterday but I learnt a 'lesson' about it.
Parting comments from Chiba Sensei though was about shinai grip, how you hold it. One way to learn the importance of it is to do a lot of kakarigeiko. But more importantly, in winter you should do ten sets because it is colder, and in summer five sets. You will learn the importance of not using your right hand in that training.... And boy, after doing two sets of kakarigeiko I already can understand the importance.... My right thumb is killing me right now...
I wish that I might have future opportunities to learn more from someone like Chiba Sensei.
After training, I was talking to someone and I said that I hated Kendo sometimes. I do. I say this because my training really shows how bad I am at Kendo. After the amount of time I have been playing, and the effort I put in, sometimes I feel like I can't do anything and I hate that. I have not much of the things that are required to be good at Kendo like natural aggression. I'm not saying that all good Kendoka have to be aggressive, but you have to have it to some extent to be on the attack. I am always finding myself backing away, and being pushed by other peoples seme. I think this is why I desire so much to try to learn Jodan no Kamae because it is an aggresive attacking style, to draw out that part in me. At the same time, playing against other players who are of the same 'grading' as me, or slightly higher/lower, it shows me how bad I am too.... ~sigh~.
The response the person I was talking to was that in reality, I don't hate it. All people who do it will think/say that at some point, but we still continue to play it, learn it, live it. Why? Because it is something hard, challenging, and we push ourselves to be better, to learn. When we learn something new, it feels good, great, fantastic, but then at the same time, once we master this new thing, therre is always something new to learn and work on. That is so true, but so hard. Which is why everyone has their own pace, and this is a lifelong learning thing.
I have plenty of time ahead of me. I doubt I will ever be a good competition player or even good at jigeiko, but I hope at least that my form will be good in theory and grading.
The seminar didn't really have anything new compared to what he taught yesterday. We went over a little less, and in less detail because of the time constraints but I still learnt one thing, well, two things really thinking about it. Learning at least one thing is the best part of something like this.
I learnt a little more about Chudan no Kamae, and also how to do a little waza in terms of cut speed (under the shinai vs over the shinai). Oh, and also grip on the shinai, so I guess that is 2.5 things since it was taught yesterday but I learnt a 'lesson' about it.
Parting comments from Chiba Sensei though was about shinai grip, how you hold it. One way to learn the importance of it is to do a lot of kakarigeiko. But more importantly, in winter you should do ten sets because it is colder, and in summer five sets. You will learn the importance of not using your right hand in that training.... And boy, after doing two sets of kakarigeiko I already can understand the importance.... My right thumb is killing me right now...
I wish that I might have future opportunities to learn more from someone like Chiba Sensei.
After training, I was talking to someone and I said that I hated Kendo sometimes. I do. I say this because my training really shows how bad I am at Kendo. After the amount of time I have been playing, and the effort I put in, sometimes I feel like I can't do anything and I hate that. I have not much of the things that are required to be good at Kendo like natural aggression. I'm not saying that all good Kendoka have to be aggressive, but you have to have it to some extent to be on the attack. I am always finding myself backing away, and being pushed by other peoples seme. I think this is why I desire so much to try to learn Jodan no Kamae because it is an aggresive attacking style, to draw out that part in me. At the same time, playing against other players who are of the same 'grading' as me, or slightly higher/lower, it shows me how bad I am too.... ~sigh~.
The response the person I was talking to was that in reality, I don't hate it. All people who do it will think/say that at some point, but we still continue to play it, learn it, live it. Why? Because it is something hard, challenging, and we push ourselves to be better, to learn. When we learn something new, it feels good, great, fantastic, but then at the same time, once we master this new thing, therre is always something new to learn and work on. That is so true, but so hard. Which is why everyone has their own pace, and this is a lifelong learning thing.
I have plenty of time ahead of me. I doubt I will ever be a good competition player or even good at jigeiko, but I hope at least that my form will be good in theory and grading.
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