Be Committed

Month Three of my Kendo training. 

Last Saturday, there were only a few who attended training as most of the regular, active members were participating in the HK Open. That meant that even though there were just a few of us, training went on, with the last batch of try out people being entertained. That also meant that training was a little bit more intense.

It was hard, yes, but I learned new set of moves today: kote-men and do. I also got to properly practice Kata 1 sitachi role with a senpai and I actually did pretty good. Then keiko went on from men, kote, kote-men, and do. From all these, I finally (finally!) realized that I had to learn how to do the suburi properly because I, from time to time, miss to hit men and kote properly (sometimes even missing them altogether!). But the most interesting lesson for that day was when I was hitting do with my Kata senpai partner. Since it was my first time to try do, I was afraid of hitting him in the wrong places so my hits weren't that hard. Senpai said that I must look where I am hitting and I am not hitting very well because I was not committed. Be committed.

Now one of the questions posed to me by one of my friends is answered. What am I gonna learn from Kendo which I can apply outside the dojo?

In life, in everything you do, Be Committed!