Ted Pin (8/14/2008)
gunna48 (8/14/2008)
Nice to know I'm not the only martial geek out there. And I agree with Grant sparring with a love body or more is much more stress relieving. Love your column.Sparring was my favorite part as well. Weapons were also very therapeutic; if you don't concentrate, you can (severely) hurt yourself! I preferred bo staff. I still yearn to try Kendo however...
Totally agree there. Weapons do raise the level of concentration, even if not sparring. Try some kana sets with a katana (if you can, try with a "real" one, not the training one) after some of the "Grass drill" style warmups to regain your center, "drowning breath" to regain focus, followed by some slow paced Tai chi chong (a somewhat more martial variant of Tai Chi with some long holds).
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?