I can imagine how challenging it must be to share your mistakes, but I find it truly admirable that you do so to help others avoid making similar errors. Thank you for your willingness to share and help others
Wonderful video but the music is a bit annoying. Deeply appreciate your honesty in showing the struggle to master the art in moments of high pressure, and admire that second shot a great deal. Best wishes for great success!
Thank you for sharing you experience. I could feel your pain, i practice kyudo and could absolutely understand the anguish and panick you go through in a shinsa. I have dropped my Bow and even fel so hard to the Ground after standing up from kiza, my legs cramped up and i could not focus on anything. This is a part of kyudo that i have learned to love for better or for worse. I have learned so much about myselfe in the short years i have practiced kyudo. Thank you for sharing this moment, it is brave of you.
I am glad you opended commentaries ;-) some kind of brave step forward... An "important" examen situation for most people is some stress, even if you do not put too much vain importance in getting a certain "grade". Some good teacher seeing me shooting a while at my club might be better at judging my abilities and faults than someone seeing only 2 shoots . But I think it is part of the abilities to aquire for higher grades to show a good shooting even in non-perfect cirumstances in respect to environment, happenings and person. At examination you hopefully try to give your best (and then, sometimes yo do it otherwise as usually or overdo it somehow). I know someone who is trying to get 4th dan 14 times already and going on...this is quite admirable in itself. You are young and you have plenty occasions for exams there in japan ;-), Here in europe is only once a year in all of europe....maybe in finland, italy, poland.... Catching bow was an impulsive, reflex reaction and it would never happen in next examination again because you certainly do not drop the bow all the time. Embarassing as it was for you at first, it is a minor one-time problem als opposed to a entrenched bad shooting habit like hayake where you might need years to get rid off (if at all). [Eeven if you kill someone in such kind of sponaneous reaction it would mitigate your verdict by much]. Simply try next exam or step down a while improving your skills to be sure to pass next examination. I hope to have passed 2th dan after some 10 years taking no examination at all (examination in europe this year was done by video records because of covid limitations, now the japanese judges are viewing the videos and deciting). Maybe i even could get 3th dan if I had a very very good day. Maybe... But would it improve my abilities ? I think: definitively no. I rather like to judge ablities by seeing someone shooting one club training evening....will he/she fluctuate/detoriate in shooting by time or have stable and constant shooting habits? Will he/she be clench his/her teeth and continue shooting even if something adverse happens... .Andy
Thank you for sharing. I have my test next month and I’m freaking out a little bit. (Ok, freaking out a lot) It’ll be my first time testing with other people due to corona and I honestly don’t really know how to do it. Can you make a video about how to handle mistakes? I have never practiced it and have no idea what to do.
"It's best to go over this with your instructor." would be the correct response. Kyudo is much about building connections as it is the pursuit of the martial Art. Responses to shitsu depend much on the particular error, but the typical procedure requires you to always maintain Rei (courtesy) and to act as quickly as possible as the rest of the line is waiting (in Kiza!)
I do kyudo, and I would have thought that if it didn't get too far away from your hand, and you accidentally kept it in your grasp, they would be ok with it? But I guess, in terms of the shinsa and getting yondan, you wouldn't of passed anyway so in that regard it doesn't matter unfortunately. Yondan shinsa is super super super hard!
I can imagine how challenging it must be to share your mistakes, but I find it truly admirable that you do so to help others avoid making similar errors. Thank you for your willingness to share and help others
Wonderful video but the music is a bit annoying. Deeply appreciate your honesty in showing the struggle to master the art in moments of high pressure, and admire that second shot a great deal. Best wishes for great success!
Thank you for sharing you experience. I could feel your pain, i practice kyudo and could absolutely understand the anguish and panick you go through in a shinsa. I have dropped my Bow and even fel so hard to the Ground after standing up from kiza, my legs cramped up and i could not focus on anything. This is a part of kyudo that i have learned to love for better or for worse. I have learned so much about myselfe in the short years i have practiced kyudo. Thank you for sharing this moment, it is brave of you.
I am glad you opended commentaries ;-) some kind of brave step forward...
An "important" examen situation for most people is some stress, even if you do not put too much vain importance in getting a certain "grade". Some good teacher seeing me shooting a while at my club might be better at judging my abilities and faults than someone seeing only 2 shoots . But I think it is part of the abilities to aquire for higher grades to show a good shooting even in non-perfect cirumstances in respect to environment, happenings and person.
At examination you hopefully try to give your best (and then, sometimes yo do it otherwise as usually or overdo it somehow). I know someone who is trying to get 4th dan 14 times already and going on...this is quite admirable in itself. You are young and you have plenty occasions for exams there in japan ;-), Here in europe is only once a year in all of europe....maybe in finland, italy, poland....
Catching bow was an impulsive, reflex reaction and it would never happen in next examination again because you certainly do not drop the bow all the time. Embarassing as it was for you at first, it is a minor one-time problem als opposed to a entrenched bad shooting habit like hayake where you might need years to get rid off (if at all). [Eeven if you kill someone in such kind of sponaneous reaction it would mitigate your verdict by much].
Simply try next exam or step down a while improving your skills to be sure to pass next examination.
I hope to have passed 2th dan after some 10 years taking no examination at all (examination in europe this year was done by video records because of covid limitations, now the japanese judges are viewing the videos and deciting). Maybe i even could get 3th dan if I had a very very good day. Maybe... But would it improve my abilities ? I think: definitively no.
I rather like to judge ablities by seeing someone shooting one club training evening....will he/she fluctuate/detoriate in shooting by time or have stable and constant shooting habits? Will he/she be clench his/her teeth and continue shooting even if something adverse happens...
.Andy
Happens everyone eventually. I felt bad that everyone else had to hold position while I pick up my Yumi 😞
Thank you for sharing. I have my test next month and I’m freaking out a little bit. (Ok, freaking out a lot) It’ll be my first time testing with other people due to corona and I honestly don’t really know how to do it. Can you make a video about how to handle mistakes? I have never practiced it and have no idea what to do.
"It's best to go over this with your instructor." would be the correct response. Kyudo is much about building connections as it is the pursuit of the martial Art. Responses to shitsu depend much on the particular error, but the typical procedure requires you to always maintain Rei (courtesy) and to act as quickly as possible as the rest of the line is waiting (in Kiza!)
I do kyudo, and I would have thought that if it didn't get too far away from your hand, and you accidentally kept it in your grasp, they would be ok with it? But I guess, in terms of the shinsa and getting yondan, you wouldn't of passed anyway so in that regard it doesn't matter unfortunately. Yondan shinsa is super super super hard!