I have been totally slack about posting here.
This is mostly due to me working on an SCA combat specific blog. It can be found here-

http://corneliusvonbecke.wordpress.com/

Anyway - I expect that the wordpress project will be were my focus will be for a while.

C.

1. Breathing: for instance one breath kiri-kaeshi - where possible try to do a many cuts in one breath as possible. But also monitor your breathing during gi-keiko - try to follow a routine of sharp inhale and long slow release: only cut on release and be guarded on inhale. This is of course much easier said than done ( Read more... )

Kendo ( Read more... )

Stand with more weight on the back foot with forward pressure. This gives you the ability to spring forward with the right foot and bring up the left faster. I should ain to get a quick forward stamp in a da-dum timing (half beat) rather than a dum-dum (full beat).

I have been limited to how many trainings I can get to due to having to be at the shop on Thursday nights - sigh ( Read more... )

For some time I have been looking at getting some new forks for the bike. Something lighter and a bit less travel up the front. So I decided on a new Magura Thor for the bike. German engineering goodness and I also was shallow and got some new brakes to match ( Read more... )

kendo training last night was cold, very cold. As a result my back is suffering and I am going to ramble on about bike stuff for a change ( Read more... )

Monday was the big session with Nagayama Sensei ( Read more... )

This week we have a gust from Japan. Nagayama Sensei is from Miyagi Prefecture (Kendo kyoshi 7 dan, Iaido kyoshi 7 dan & Jodo kyoshi 7 dan) and is in Australia teaching and training ( Read more... )

One of the conversations I had on the weekend was about excellence in the SCA. There were a few comments that Peers have this sort of god-like levels of skill and knowledge that most people could never achieve. I was making the point that our Peers are mostly good amateurs and not awe inspiring experts in their field. Naturally this got a few ( Read more... )