@Wayne Nadler wonderful insights and this is exactly how you know you're in the process of internalizing kenjutsu. As your kenjutsu instructor, I can see it week after week. As with most things in life, it's difficult for us to truly know whether we're progressing or how much we're progressing until our training gets pressure tested. As martial artists, we talk about the need to pressure test our art, but that conversation seems to always revolve around levels of resisting opponents. Of course, I agree with that, but I also think there are plenty of opportunities to use our training just by going about our day and bumping up against challenges, like you had with the heavy lift. To stay on topic with the thought of the day, failure can be the best teacher. I absolutely love what you said about the value in practice not being that we'll master something or even succeed at it, but the attitude and knowing you're the kind of person who comes to the fight or challenge armed with the right attitutude, is priceless.

@Luis Bedoya excellent!

@Eugene Salleh great to have you here! I'm excited for you to check out the resources, especially classical kenjutsu movement.

@Luis Bedoya another huge welcome to the community! As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them in here, Luis.

@Luis Bedoya I'll post as much as I'm allowed. Kuroda Sensei doesn't allow photos or videos of seminars or training, but I believe it's okay to show the demonstration since it's public. I'll confirm and I'll share as much as I can!

Thanks so much, Joanne! Everyone is making good progress, which I can see with every class. Credit to you all, though, because I can tell that everyone is practicing!