Ahh, my feet!

Heh, kendo can be kinda nasty on your feet when training on polished wooden floors, which we always do. Especially if you're doing it for a long time. The bottoms of my feet were aching when i got home yesterday, and also the top of my left foot, but that was just because i fell over during one of the running exercises and burned the top of my foot and my knee along the floor. Kinda stung that. Was also pretty buggered, I had fought a lot of people that day.

Anyway, we didn't go to ballarat coz we couldn't get the training hall there, so we just had two really long training sessions at monash, from 8 till 5 saturday and sunday. They actually went till about 6 both days, but you get that. It was pretty cool, we trained with bokken (hard wooden swords) for most of the first day and didn't use a shinai at all. There was lots of footwork training the first day, as well as some kata stuff. Second day we used shinai most of the time practicing various things, finishing the day with some competitions. Since I was fortunate enough to be one of the first beginners to get into armour I got to fight in the shiai (tournament).
I was in the first match in fact. I managed to win too somehow, I gotta watch the video of the thing to figure out how i did that exactly. I know my winning point was a pretty nice men cut but the other guy's defense disappeared for a moment and I'm not entirely sure why. I thought he almost dropped his shinai or something but apparently he didn't. Meh, the video should explain it. Didn't win the second match, I got cut on my kote pretty good, but coz of the way the pool works I still managed to get through to the second round. I fought a shodan in the second round though, so he beat me in about 30 seconds or less without me getting a point at all. Oh well, I was feeling pretty good about managing to get to the second round at all, it being my first shiai and all, and only the second day I had been in actual sparring matches.
After the shiai our sensei got us to do about 15 mins of free sparring with each other, which was good too.
We had something of a kata competition after that for the other beginners who weren't in armour before finishing off.
Twas good to sit down for a while and watch tv. And now, I shall leave you with some pictures of random objects I scanned.



Btw if anyone can tell me what that writing says it would be much appreciated.

Actually I'm not done yet. Theres a little game thing i must show you, it's quite amusing for a minute or two. So far my highest speed is 689 mph.

Training Weekend

This weekend I shall be off in ballarat doing many hours of kendo training. Should be pretty cool, we're getting bokken so we can learn some kata. Hopefully I will come back a much better kendoka. We leave Friday night and come back sunday, so I probably won't be doing much else this weekend :P.

BOXWARS

www.boxwars.tk

You guys should check it out. A guy I know at uni (obviously luke) is heavily involved it in and told me to join and to get as many people as I could to join, so you guys should all come to boxwars 6, currently scheduled for the 26th of June. I plan on going (y).
Looks like wicked fun if you ask me, make big ass suits of armour and weapons out of cardboard and then run screaming into combat against each other :D

Go liquid nitrogen!

Ahh yes, liquid nitrogen day today was good fun. It was really only an hour, but meh. We froze stuff and smashed stuff, brilliant. There were eggs, a potato, some flowers, lemonade, balloons, my sandwich, a can, steve's coke bottle... most were hit with a hammer shortly after their being frozen. The potato was particularly spectacular, it got thrown at a wall resulting in some nice shattering. Liquid nitrogen makes such cool clouds as it evaporates. Actually I found it quite interesting that you could just leave it out in an open container and not have it all evaporate away instantly. The sides were well insulated so i guess the cold air was so cold that it stayed in the container with the nitrogen.
Found out I aced my last two tests today too, was quite happy about that, specially the mechanical eng one since that subject is actually one of the more complicated ones. Not that any of them are terribly hard, but since I do no study except just before tests I don't get perfect marks in all of em.
Ahh yes, and another quiz, stolen from seans blog:

Nihilist Bear


Which Dysfunctional Care Bear Are You?
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I must be bored...

More tests

By request, here are my results for the 16 factor and disorder tests.

So many tests....



Seems pretty accurate to me. Although the questions were rather direct, I prefer tests that figure out your personality by asking you about other things. This test pretty much asks you what your personality is and then tells you, so it's no great surprise that its accurate. Heh, sorry Stephen, my 3.3% of the population is smaller than your 8.8% :P.



Seems this test gave me the same result. Twas a little more interesting than the last one.
Heh, just looking around and found this, check it out:

Famous INTPs:

Socrates
Rene Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Sir Isaac Newton
U.S. Presidents:
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
John Tyler
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
William Harvey (pioneer in human physiology)
C. G. Jung, (Freudian defector, author of Psychological Types, etc.)
William James
Albert Einstein
Tom Foley (Speaker of the House--U.S. House of Representatives)
Henri Mancini
Bob Newhart
Jeff Bingaman, U.S. Senator (D.--NM)
Rick Moranis (Honey, I Shrunk The Kids)
Midori Ito (ice skater, Olympic silver medalist)
Tiger Woods

I also did those tests Jason did, but like stephen i also decided they kinda sucked.