practice makes perfect

Spent all day in honbu dojo today. Came in at about 10 am and helped a bit with Ando-sensei's class. At 11:40 the first group of visitors on the neighborhood tour came by, so about 30 people packed into the side of the dojo and Ando-sensei gave them a quick speech about what we do. Showed some grandmas my sword, watched as they put fingerprints all over the blade, and then we demo'd some kata before the took off.
Grabbed some riceballs for lunch and then watched Niina-gosoke and Yamada-sensei practice kusarigama. During downtime I practiced with my kusarigama, too, trying to hit the pillar from 10 feet away. I'm up to about a .300 average; not bad for baseball but no good when failing to incapacitate your opponent means a sword moving quickly towards your head.
In the afternoon the second tour group showed up, so again Ando-sensei did his speech and this time Niina-gosoke and Yamada-sensei did a quick demo. Finally I did some cutting to wrap up the day.
By now it was about five so I scootered home and did some more practice cutting in the basement, trying to get ready for the demo tomorrow.

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