Finally Practice Log Again...

I know I haven't wrote anything about Kendo, or about anything else for that matter, so here it goes...

The truth is I've been practicing all the while. I haven't missed too many practices, despite my schedule and all.
Yesterday was a rarity that not a lot of Senseis showed up for practice. Only M Sensei showed up... I found that he has been getting more and more aggressive lately, either that or I have regressed without realizing it. M Sensei has launched more men attack rather than his usual parry mode, kote and kaishi do. Truthfully, I feel that M Sensei perhaps is the strongest one in Kendo mentally and spiritually. I feel that not only he has the ability to sense an opening physically but even spiritually. Even though he's not the fastest, in fact his attacks seems pretty slow at times, he seems to be able to hit the opening at the right timing. Not only to the students, even to the more powerful Senseis, such as Mr. SMura and Mr. Concorde.
That being said, I have been having difficulties fighting M Sensei lately... Not that it's ever easy in the first place. Perhaps he has seen through my pattern of attack as well...
Other than that, perhaps due to my recovering from some flu, I have been feeling exhausted in the past few practices. It's true that I've been struggling with my weight in the past few months, but I have made some headway in the past couple of weeks, thanks to the advise of the Baroness... I have also been working out as my usual schedule.
I also had a few practices in with God of Thunder and Solid Snake. While all of them were good fun practices, I begin to find something withing me...
Perhaps due to my exhaustion, I often opted to go for the safety counter of debana kote when I fought Solid Snake. He has a very fast long range men attack that is difficult to anticipate. I usually counter it with attacking his maai, playing with the distance so that he will not be able to launch his attack easily. So far this tactic has been working quite well, especially when I counter his men with my own men attack. However, yesterday I found that he exposed his kote everytime he tried to launch an attack, which I capitalized on.
Fighting God of Thunder, however is another story all together.
He is physically the strongest amongst all of us... I found myself reluctant to go in whole heartedly for an attack, which resulted in his counters... After I refocused myself, I tried again for a more direct attacks on him. The result we're probably about even, although I am dissapointed that I was not able to hit anything clear and decisive.

With the Indonesian Tournament looming ahead in just 2-3 days, I wanted to get a few more practices and workouts in. The beauty of this year's tournament... there's so many contenders that anyone could end up winning it all. Unlike before, this time I don't even care which group I'm in or who I'm fighting first... It doesn't really matter this time...