Sunday, January 25, 2009

You Know You Are obsessed With Kendo If.....

1. Sometimes you respond to people with "Hai".

2. Sometimes you move around the house with ashisabaki.

3. You watch Kendo videos on YouTube on your free time.

4. You make Kendo references to regular life situations.

5. You go to Japan and somehow unintentionally Kendo over there every time or...

6. You go to Japan strictly for Kendo or...

7. You want to go to Japan strictly for Kendo.

8. You feel that you haven't been practicing because your hands aren't bleeding or the skin on the bottom of your foot isn't falling off and your body doesn't ache.

9. You never miss training every Saturday.

10. You're favorite memories are from the dojo.

11. You enjoy coming early for training just to sweep the floor and wipe it clean.

12. You feel good after feeling that sore feeling you get after 50 haya-suburi

13. You do fumikomi, suriashi, stamping, or just casually go to kamae in public for no reason.

14. You get pissed off when you see the shinai tip touching the floor.

15. You've thought about quitting Kendo before, look back on it now and are glad you didn't.

16. You have massive amounts of Kendo related stuff (equipment, books, tenugui, etc.) all over your room.

17. An endless Kendo conversation is a good conversation.

18. You can tell which kote is yours from several different ones just by the smell of it.

19. You have Kendo related pictures or paraphernalia on your facebook display picture.

20. You are nodding your head to all of this.

Izzaz

6 comments:

Danson Loi said...

EXACTLY! i did 19 out of 20 inside tht list! xD

Unknown said...

and what was the one u left out?

Danson Loi said...

Tht would be no.9, haha.

Anonymous said...

hahahha, this is a good one. Now i realize how much of a kendo otaku i am. anyway, how many people are managing the blog?

Unknown said...

lol. THATS TRUE!!!

marcusan said...

Anonymous>
Thanks for coming by. There are THREE people managing this blog, Izzaz, Danson, and myself. Do come back for more interesting stuff in the future.

The blog is currently in its beta stage, so do bear with us for the time being. :-)

ps. kindly identify yourself so we know who we are talking to. Its just the more politically correct thing to do in cyberspace. :-D

maRCus