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**EmpokemyMok** · 05-12-2006, 07:00 AM

I don't think winning in kendo is the most important thing it's only a bonus that would boost your confindence(too much maybe). It is also a way to tell yourself that all the training you are doing is giving you something in return.

I won a tournament last week (mudansha division) in Waterloo Ont and everyone have been telling me how good I did etc..but actually after viewing the video tape of it I was concerned about how my kendo looked. Some of the points, I got, were not very clear and I disagree with some of them, so for next time I enter a competition I want to make the most perfect points possible (if i'm able to)! (it's just a way of thinking.) I want the shinpan to raise the 3 flags without hesitation!

A lot of people complaint about shinpan not being good and making bad decisions. I agree some of them are arrogant and think they always give the best decision, sometimes they don't have enough humility: like after raising the flag they wouldn't be able to put it back down (refusing the point, for bad zanshin or whatever)... Others just wait for a shinpan with more experience to wave the flag and do the same thing (that's the worst!).

But these people are also kenshi, they are learning too. A tournament for them is the same thing as for a competitor, they want to(or should) give their best. If I continue kendo for long enough I also want to be shinpan in tournaments, but for my first tournament don't except me to be very fair.

Anyway i'm totaly against using electronic devices in kendo...(...cuz i wouldn't be able to win anymore)

Yo is it just me or I wrote a lot without telling anything?

05-12-2006, 07:00 AM	#27
EmpokemyMok Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	I don't think winning in kendo is the most important thing it's only a bonus that would boost your confindence(too much maybe). It is also a way to tell yourself that all the training you are doing is giving you something in return. I won a tournament last week (mudansha division) in Waterloo Ont and everyone have been telling me how good I did etc..but actually after viewing the video tape of it I was concerned about how my kendo looked. Some of the points, I got, were not very clear and I disagree with some of them, so for next time I enter a competition I want to make the most perfect points possible (if i'm able to)! (it's just a way of thinking.) I want the shinpan to raise the 3 flags without hesitation! A lot of people complaint about shinpan not being good and making bad decisions. I agree some of them are arrogant and think they always give the best decision, sometimes they don't have enough humility: like after raising the flag they wouldn't be able to put it back down (refusing the point, for bad zanshin or whatever)... Others just wait for a shinpan with more experience to wave the flag and do the same thing (that's the worst!). But these people are also kenshi, they are learning too. A tournament for them is the same thing as for a competitor, they want to(or should) give their best. If I continue kendo for long enough I also want to be shinpan in tournaments, but for my first tournament don't except me to be very fair. Anyway i'm totaly against using electronic devices in kendo...(...cuz i wouldn't be able to win anymore) Yo is it just me or I wrote a lot without telling anything?
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