The Book of Five Rings

This last week leading up to the Dan gradings, I’ll try to write a little bit about my karate life. I know I’ve sprinkled bits and pieces here and there, but this will be a continuos log of my karate life for the next 8 days.

With every Dan grading comes the required reading. I can’t remember what I read the last time around, and for all I can remember it might have been The Book of Five Rings, but it’s already too late and I figure reading the book again couldn’t hurt. Let’s hope that I’m not called out on having the same book review as last time.

It’s a little bit of a miscalculation on my part. I should have started reading this book a while back, but I put it off for too long, and as tempting as it would be to leave the book review until the night before grading, I think I’ll be too jittery to be able to articulate my thoughts. I’m on page 1, I have 152 pages to go.

Shiomitsu Sensei will begin his winter clinic this Thursday and will grade us on Sunday. What I don’t look forward to is having the grading syllabus changed, just before grading (everyone interprets things different, and so inevitably there is some misunderstandings that will be clarified when he comes). I’m actually quite nervous about this grading, since I don’t feel that I have had too many ‘good’ training days where I’m 100%...75%.. happy with my technique. and I don’t have high hopes. But since it’s too late to back out now, I shall give it my best.

I wrote this on 3 February 07 when I was feeling .

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