So I got up or better, my gf woke me up, twice, once at 5:00 and one time at 5:30 to ensure that I get out of bed to pick up three more Kendokas determined to wreck havok on the Tengu Cup 2010 in Frankfurt.
At least that was the plan, since we we’re just mere simple Kyus. But we were there to change that as well, but first things first.
I got three fights, two good, with the second one me getting a bit lazy and a not so good third one, where my opponent was actual smaller than me.
Something that is kinda disturbing for me despite my own size as I only train with people who are way larger, so I get used to that and everytime I meet somebody smaller or same size my kamae just doesn’t fit anymore.
Well to safe you all the words here the three fights:
1:0
1:1, hante for me
0:1 lost.
The rest of the tournament, we managed to do pretty well (at least from our point of view) but at the Dan geikos and later the team geikos there were some amazing brilliant and exciting matches to watch. Most impressive was the semi final Ichii from the Düsseldorf Dojo vs Kimura from swizz. It’s hard to describe in words but that fight was explosive.
Both, Düsseldorf and Swiss met again in the team finals. The teams finals were not less exciting to watch and I think I can say those fights belong to the best I have ever seen live.
Next day, after an extended dinner barbeque and early rest, Kyu test.
For two of us it should be the 1. Kyu for one the 2nd Kyu. To make a long story short. It wasn’t our best day, one of us failed and according to A. I barely made. Sad but true, there is more training to be done for us all.
After that: Sensei geiko, I managed to “fight” with Kimura sensei and Ichii sensii, I can only say very different in their style but great fun to practice with. I really got nervous, even more than for my own Kyu test waiting in line for my turn with Kimura sensei, as he had a few very intense geikos with those before me but I think I managed to make him smile once with, while showing him my possible best Men.
Same with Ichii and he even took the time to honor my efforts with a small “nice” as comment.
The third geiko I managed to do during the sensei and after that free geiko was Kumpf my instructor during the Kyu test. I hope I managed to show a bit more better part of my Kendo than during the exam.
Anyway a good and exhausting weekend, which adjust our Kendo focus a lot. As said early, there’s more training to be done!
Yeah, been very lazy on updating my blog recently.
RL is always a good excuse as is work and that is also basically the main thing.
Another is partially having an active Eve Online corporation so gaming is requiring more attention so I don’t post/blog while mindless mining asteroids in Eve Online.
Twitter stepped in for a while especially since you could do it lazy from work but currently nothing is really lazy at work, there down times where you can follow up a bit but I’m usually pretty occupied.
So what’s going on on my side.
The move went well, three floors down without an elevator, four up without an elevator so I had it done. They started with two ppl, moving most of the boxes out and then got a third one helping with the furniture. At the new appartment two more came to help so they were 5 in total. Good job on that, since I couldn’t just stand and watch (although I payed a fix price) I helped out a bit and so everything was in at 18:00 the same day.
May was a busy month, the move on Monday the 3rd, the weekend around the 8th the bachelor party of my sisters fiancé right after that a week in sweden due to work and on 22th the marriage of my sister with her now husband.
I survived though, most of it went smooth and now June in my new appartment, having unboxed as much as possible “inbetween” all those may dates, I’m sitting in a fairly cleared appartment.
My old was 2 rooms, 53m². The new one is three rooms, 69m² both had a balcony although on the new one I’m not allowed to barbeque with real fire. Im allowed to use the inner courtyard which is kinda nice with some green and trees. Also: car port ! Costs extra but now motorcycle and car are somewhat saved from all the nasty weather which we currently seem to have so much.
It’s half way in direction of my work, the route is a bit easier so I intend to go by bike to work, when it’s not raining only though.
I also started with Capoeira twice a week at Capoeira Franken. Like it very much and it’s a nice change from Kendo. A bit more physically exhausting .
Internet at home is working too again and ! my Wii is back online. No idea why it wouldn’t connect to my old wlan router anymore but with the move I got a new all in one router, DSL modem thingy and that one works just fine.
Also kitchen with a dish washer !! Yay.
Not going to say I’ll try to update more, we’ll see when I blog again .
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