I feel like a big pack rat as I walk on the streets with a big sports bag, long bag which has 3 bo's inside and 1 smaller bag which has my wooden tai chi sword in it. That sword arrived awhile ago and it really does make a big difference whether I use that or a jo for practice.
There usually isn't a lot of people in our kobudo class on Saturday's, it was also like that today. Besides me, there was only another white belt and our sensei (+ a lot of iaido people). Our sensei spent most of the time dealing with the iaido guys so he told us to do quite a lot of paired bo work and it's first kata - Shujii no sho. All of them were the things which we need for our yellow belt exam.
At the end of the class, we tried a bit of sai kumite (against bo), but we didn't really have much time to try as the class seemed to end pretty fast. Then me, an iaido guy and our sensei stayed in the dojo for some tai chi. It's quite relaxing, but the sword forms can be quite complicated. And the stances with the sword are usually really low. I think fan forms are supposed to be even more complicated... oh the joy.
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