I am definitely liking this tuesday iaido practice with the college students. Last night Kanai-sensei drilled us for over an hour in basics; repeating cuts back and forth across the floor. I think some of the guys get a little bored, but since I still don't have any idea of what I'm doing, I appreciate the attention to detail. Kanai-sensei doesn't miss anything and is always correcting my blade angle or wrist position. We then went into individual practice to get ready for the enbukai end of this month, and somehow Kanai-sensei manages to be watching me the one time (ok one out of ten times) I step on my own hakama when standing up or something. At least I'm getting the bows correctly (I think.)
After practice Shiokawa-san had about 8 calls on his cell from Gosokei (THE head of Mugai-ryu!), who told him to tell Kanai-sensei to call him with me around. I immediately assumed I'd done some horrible impropriety and would be banned from Mygai-ryu for life or something, so trembling with fear I told Kanai-sensei to call Gosokei and...her cellphone battery was dead. So we waited for Shiokawa-san to come down and give her the phone number and she used my phone to call him.
Turns out he's really interested in the English translations of the homepage I've been working on with Chihara-san, and wanted Kanai-sensei to ask me about search engines and such in English so that Mugai-ryu can get properly registered and understood around the world. So I'm going to do some research on top martial arts sites and search engines and report to Gosokei.