Bokken's Day Out

My Very first Blog;

Yesterday i bought a very nice Bokken. Cheap, £9 from PERIVALE sports in Perivale (well..), i figured it was a good idea before buying a Katana to do a bit of practice first.

Of course this all after a brief exchange with Paul Southern of SBG, about Katana Koshirae and some stuff he's doing, and for those who don't know him I have to say i found the info contained in http://www.sword-buyers-guide.com/ absolutely invaluable.

Now things which i don't own yet but should, include:
A) A First Aid Kit

a little wise voice in my head told me, after many hours of the morning spent looking at various Katanas that what if, after having found the just perfect one, i was to give a good swing, and god forbid, nothing dramatic, just say brush it lightly against my tight and get a nice 10-inch long, 2 inch deep cut right next to my femural artery? - (or just in the vicinity????)

So i got me a Bokken;

40" of polished black wood, Katana shape, now if i ever manage to go to that little meditation garden next to the Imperial War Museum and practice in my Hakama and Gi, instead of looking like a complete idiot wielding a sword, i will look like a someone who is practicing to wield a sword, that is also holding a big stick.
Can't beat that.

And then here is Bokken's Blog. I'v never, like, "done stuff", and while lately i'v been excercising and stuff it more like seems to be on-off, i let it go everytime i see an improvement; i bought weights, got big biceps, then let them get fluffy again because i lost a 5kgm ring, then i got bored, and so on, and while i had a gripper (the thing that you hold and squeeze to strenghten your handgrip) i ran it out - and needed a stronger one; so like always, i wrote in my little shitty yellow notebook "buy new gripper" like i always do, and figured i just wouldn't or for some other reason go back to being a loser. But i didn't.

I was outside of Brixton tube, and pushed myself - though i didn't want to - to go to Perivale, (i had the location memorized) and buy this fucking Bokken. (thinking of course along the way that i would not somehow buy it, or i would get lost on purpose, or some other thing that always gets in my fucking mind and prevents me from doing anything Good, with my life)

And while there, i looked around, albeit timidly - or confusedly, i should say - and saw they had grippers too, so i got a nice new one.

Of course the instructions said not to work out every day and i just could not help myself doing it,
but hey, at least i could cross off of my list "buy new gripper, CR0" and that's a start.
You see, if i can do the things which i set myself to, those wonderful things which i think up during my miserable day at work, those things which aren't hard or ludicrous at all, then my life will certainly be better. And today i decided that i will go check out the Tibetan Meditation Garden in Kennington, i want to see if there is a good spot for a fat man in Hakama and Gi, wielding a pointy stick.

Problem is, with the Hakama and the Gi.

I haven't bought them yet.