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ugg, the other day i was clearing up some brush with my machete. after about 1/2 hour my thumb starts to get swore. i look down and the handle rubbed off the skin around the base of the thumb. its all scabbed no so if i use a sword the handle will crack the scab. hope it heals soon, i need to do some swordwork,

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Today, I cut mats with some fellow backyard cutters. Cutting today didn't go as well as I thought it would for me, because it took me three times at least to get a suhei-suhei double. Barely. Also, I wasn't in top form today, probably because I didn't practice for almost 2 weeks. However, I hope that I can continue to grow and be able to become a better cutter =) Gotta work a lot on my ha-suji =)

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Hey everyone. Today I was thinking for a bit about the times when training gets frustrating or boring. We have all experienced these moments whether it be with backyard cutting training or in our other martial arts training. Sometimes just going inside and watching t.v. is much more appealing then being out and training.

When this happens I try to keep a saying in my head. Any time not spent training is wasted time. Now this saying is not to be taken literally, but its a great ...

Tsukamaki is very time consuming and if you want to get very even diamonds with hishigami etc. then it can take 2 or more hours not to mention sore fingers the day after. However, I like doing tsukamaki, and will be working on katatemaki wrap as soon as I get more ito for my katsumoto katana. It's pretty weird because I have never used anything other that silk ito (lol) but even though pricey, I think that the end job is worth it.