- kendo: learn how to actually hit people with a few well-defined principles at your discretion (sounds like ken-doh)
- iaido: learn how to move a real sword with a broad range of well-defined traditional motions (sounds like yi-doh)
- jodo: learn how to defend against a sword with a staff with beautiful, sensible sweeping motions (sounds like joe-doh)
However, my body's shape is also a deficient tool for these, in the quality of flexibility. In jodo, many wide movements of mine are constricted by my tight posture. In kendo, my reach is limited and so is the latency of my actions.
That is where yoga enters. I started practising it again the other week to help my -dos. Even though last year I saw kendo and yoga more as "either or", where if I had time to practise something, I should invest it in the one that was most important to me, they each offer something quite different, and I've been looking forward to resuming it for a while for improved flexibility and enjoying slow morning. I like slow.
However, I've forgotten a lot of the details from when I last practised it occasionally, so I'm going to join a friend at her yoga class [edit: next semester]. The Internet is nice, but it's nicer still to have someone next to you who will actually give you feedback, and there are not that many AI yoga instructors with computer vision yet. :)
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