The Flavour of Life

I haven't been training for the past few weeks, nor have I picked up my shinai for an extended period of time. It feels like everything is starting to fall apart; University is getting busy, work wants me to work more hours, need to apply for Graduate jobs, injury is preventing me from training, and just general problems in my life that don't seem to be worth thinking about.. yet I do.

It feels like i've reached one of many plateaus that I'll experience in my life. It doesn't feel nice, where nothing feels like it's going right. I feel that I've changed from the person that I was a few years ago. I was carefree, had little to nothing on my mind, stress-free, etc. Now, it seems like i've regressed into a person that I didn't want to become. Being afraid of making decisions in life.

I guess I need to re-evaluate my position in life... re-prioritise some things. Because, somethings don't seem to be important enough to be worth the hassle it is (no I'm not going to quit kendo). Just something in my life that has gotten me acting weirder & changing. Changing into this person I don't want to be..

Currently, it seems that I'm taking a lot of things on that I may/may not be able to handle. Overloading the number of subjects I take at uni, Working part time, Kendo.. just doesn't seem to have enough time for me to just relax and take a breather. I don't know how everyone else does it. Guess i'm not as great as I thought I would be.

I'll probably resume training again next week depending on how busy I'm going to be; with all the assignments i've got to do.

Until next time, I promise you that there won't be an emo post in the future to come. Hopefully I'll resolve my problems by that time and become a person that people have came to befriend.

Until then,
ciaossu

Never back down.

I haven't trained at my original dojo for a while due to the timings of work, uni, and other misc things that made me unable to go training.

Started off with basic things like warmup, 100 hayasuburi and then basic footwork as we used to do a while ago before putting men on and starting keiko. We first did kirikaeshi followed by kihon Men, 5 times each for 2 rotations, and then Kihon Kote, Kihon dou followed by small cuts.

There was other things that we did as well but I forgot as to what it was.

I've received several comments regarding my small cuts, where when I go to hit men, I dip the shinai down below tsuki towards the Mune of the dou and then bring the shinai back up to do a men cut, or so that's what I was told what I was doing.
Another comment was that I wasn't hitting hard enough, and another sempai told me that I was whipping my shinai when doing small cuts. Just bring it up and down he told me. I'm not sure how I'm doing the whipping thing, but I believe that relates to the problem I have with the shinai going down towards the mune of the dou.

After that We did Uchikomi-geiko & Kakari-geiko followed with a few bouts of Jigeiko. First jigeiko I wasn't feeling up to scratch, so I tried to feel for more opening.
I then jigeiko'd with another sempai who commented that I was rushing to cut too much which felt predictable. Therefore, I needed to setup the cut in order to succeed.

Still along way for me to go, and not too long till Burwood competition.