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Old 03-29-2007, 03:21 AM   #1
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Default Initiations.
Last weekend, Number One Dave passed his Shodan exam. Last night was the first session back after his grading. We finished the session with shiai-geiko. I don't know how this is done in other dojos but the way we did it last night was to form a circle, two kendoka go in the middle and fight for one point, winner stays in. Dave, being the brand shiny new shodan, had to go in first. The whole thing was fixed, however, so that no matter who managed to score a point on Dave, it was waved away with calls of "No zanshin!", "No ki ken tai!" or even "No point, it was a lucky strike!". Basically, Dave got kakarigeiko for what seemed like ages (everyone who was in bogu that night fought him at least 3 times). Even when he let people score on him, they would'nt let him out. At the end of it all, he was shagged out but gave a good account of himself.

Does anyone else have this kind of "initiation" when certain grades are passed?
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