09:33: since i was about 13, i have wanted to learn kendo. i knew that there was a local kendo club, but i didn't know how to go about contacting them. i found their website once, four years ago. i sent them an email but they never replied. recently, my little bunny convinced me to run another search and i found a newer, better site. this time around, i got a reply. they only accept beginners twice a year, in january and july. beginners have to be at training every saturday. it's a 2-hour class, with an extra hour on the last saturday of every month for competition among the advanced students.
i went to last saturday's session to have a look. stretching and exercises are very similar to gumdo, so it's nothing i haven't done before. competition is like fencing, but not quite. i can't yet figure out how one scores, everything happens so fast. the class has an average of 25 beginning students, so you don't really get much attention and direct instruction until you go up against the advanced students towards the end of the class.
realistically, i can't do this. i will be giving up my saturdays for half a year! not that i party on saturdays, or anything. but i do work on weekends, mostly. and usually in the late afternoon or early evening, right when kendo training is scheduled. then again, the next show isn't until july. i'm on the waiting list for the january batch. training starts on the 8th. hmm. just wish i had someone to take lessons with.
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