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[wingedelf]

Up gruff and surly to go check out an iaido class which trains at a time which doesn't put it in direct conflict with any other familial commitments or obligations.

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[staxxy]

What is iaido?

[wingedelf]

It's a Japanese sword-fighting art.

[staxxy]

Neat!

[thewronghands]

How did it go? I too was up early for martial arts today, but damn, mornings suck.

[wingedelf]

Hard to tell. Apparently the Saturday 7:00 class only is drawing senior students at present- as in people who have trained in the style for, oh, a decade and more. They definitely seemed interested in having newcomers, even at novice levels, but it will definitely take some thought to determine if we really want to be the people who feel as if they're really holding back the senior students, and really early on a Saturday morning to boot.

My immediate inclination is to look around and see if there are any other classes in the area which don't have collisions with existing schedules and try to watch a few more before making the decision to join one or another.

[thewronghands]

What timeslots do you have available, and is it specifically iaido that you want? I might be able to point you in useful directions.

[wingedelf]

The boys are training shotokan on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-7, I have a standing Wednesday night trivia game at 8. Other than that, nothing is immutable right now.

Iaido isn't a must, but I'd rather stick with a Japanese (or Japanese-derived) style over Taijijian or Bagua zhang. For that matter, I'd think seriously about either a German longsword or Destreza class- it's years since I've done any serious training from the Lichtenauer derivatives [although I still remember the four guards and at least the basic hews], and would probably lean Spanish over Italian rapier just on its alinear trends.