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		<title>Seminars, Injuries, and Downtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last two months I&#8217;ve attended the 2011 AUSKF Iaido Seminar, developed a possibly serious knee injury leaving me unable to practice for nearly a month, and am sitting at the airport waiting to board my plane for the 2011 AUSKF Championships. As my plane doesn&#8217;t depart for more than an hour I decided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=83&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shinsa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year countless kendoka have to prepare for their shinsa and everyone begins their preparations at different times. Some start only a few months ahead while others start an entire year or more before. Beginning kendoka can afford to start this process a few months ahead but the higher up you go, the more time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=75&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kendoka Knee &#8211; Follow Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post I mentioned I was looking into getting a knee brace similar to this and I actually ended up purchasing that exact one. I chose to wear it for an entire day leading up to practice and in some ways, this will be a review of the brace as well as any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=69&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kendoka Knee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two to three months or so I&#8217;ve been dealing with intermittent pain in my right knee that I&#8217;ve felt before but not for this long of a time. Initially I chalked it up to a doing fumikomi on a dead spot on the dojo floor one too many times or an errant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=61&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kakarigeiko</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has practiced kendo for at least a few years has, hopefully, done a few rounds of kakarigeiko. I for one feel I haven&#8217;t done nearly enough of it recently and last night&#8217;s practice reminded me why we have kakarigeiko and its importance in regular practice. Last night we were fortunate enough to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=55&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9 Months in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 14:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having never been good at maintaining regular entries into a blog of any type, it comes as no surprise to me that it&#8217;s been about 9 months since I last posted anything. Needless to say my long promised summary of what I learned at the SDK 2009 seminar is long overdue but sadly, will not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=50&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 SDK Seminar Reflections: Long Overdue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in May I attended the 2009 Sei Do Kai Iaido and Jodo seminar and promised to share my thoughts and things I learned over those three days. I now find myself in August and still have failed to do so. In short I will say that it was definitely a worth while experience and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=47&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 SDK Iaido/Jodo Seminar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I depart for Guelph to attend the annual SDK Iaido/Jodo seminar. I&#8217;ll try to take as many pictures as I can (budo and non-budo related) and hopefully my poor brain will retain most of what is said. I&#8217;ll be bringing a little journal so I can record my thoughts from each day since I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=44&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sen No Sen</title>
		<link>http://shinkenshi.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/sennosen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last month or so,  I've been going to practice without my contact lenses for two reasons.  First, my eyes were starting to get bothered by them and second, I ran out of fresh ones.  When I made the decision to stop wearing them for a while, I remembered something mysensei said during one of our practices some time ago.  When he was younger and competing in college with the kendo club, he didn't have the option of contact lenses or glasses inside his men so he practiced much harder to compensate for his lack of sight.  He found he was able to not rely on visual cues from hisaite but more from the feeling he got instead.  I believe this falls into the realm of 先, 先の先, and 先々の先 (sen, sen no sen, sen zen no sen), anticipation, knowing what your opponent will do an act first, and sensing what your opponent will do.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=36&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East Coast Iaido Seminar and Shinsa 2009</title>
		<link>http://shinkenshi.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/east-coast-iaido-seminar-and-shinsa-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this pas Sunday was the East Coast Iaido Seminar and Shinsa and for those of you who don't know, I started practicing iaido last summer and this was my first time testing.  Iaido is a Japanese sword martial art that focuses on drawing the sword from the scabbard, cutting down a certain number of opponents, and returning the sword to the scabbard.  Currently, I am just practicing the Seitei Gata, a set of 12 forms that were made by the All Japan Kendo Federation to help propagate iaido and is a standard by which people can be tested for rank.  They were also created from several different traditional sword schools and as a result, each form is very subtly different in terms of their reasoning behind certain movements.  But I digress.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shinkenshi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664801&amp;post=14&amp;subd=shinkenshi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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