Kumdo

The most exciting thing I have been doing as of late is that I started taking Kumdo lessons. Some of you may have heard of the Japanese equivalent which is called Kendo (of course the Korean version is far superior). Kumdo is a traditional Korean sword fighting that I classify as a cross between fencing and Tae Kwon Do.

There’s no use in doing anything half-a$$ed so I have signed up for 1-2 hour lessons every Monday to Friday. I have been taking lessons for about a month and I have my own bamboo sword now. We are still just learning the steps involved and hitting dummies but I hope to be cracking people over the head sometime soon.

Also I am learning Korean when I take lessons because my instructor barely knows English. About the worst thing of it is that everyday we do a ceremony at the end where we have to kneel and sit on our feet in the traditional Korean way. My body is not made to do this and its kind of sad that the most pain I get from my swordfighting lessons is from sitting on my feet.