r/iaido • u/TisIChenoir • 26d ago
Just got my shodan!
Hey there fellow iaidokas.
Just a quick message, I wanted to celebrate obtaining my ShiDan yesterday, in an overheated gymnasium, after an Open where I "survived" to the 1/4th of finals against some amazing mudans, especially the one that defeated me, whom with just one year of experience barely lost the finals. Some people are amazing.
So for the Shodan passage, we had to show Mae, Tsuka Ate, Kesa Giri, Moroteu Tsuki and Sanpo Giri!
Anyway, it was a fun experience, and sonce I started my journey into Iaido by asking you fine people about it, I wanted to thank you too!
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u/mancesco Nidan - ZNKR - Musō Shinden Ryū 26d ago
Congrats! It gets progressively harder from there, but remember it's all about the journey and the individual steps you take. Remember how it was when you first started, how awkward everything felt, then look where you are now! No matter how hard it gets, you can do it one step at a time.
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u/derioderio 26d ago
Good job! I hope your first month as a black belt goes better than mine! (broke my leg two weeks later)
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u/YakumoFuji 26d ago
Open where I "survived" to the 1/4th of finals against some amazing mudans, especially the one that defeated me, whom with just one year of experience barely lost the finals.
wait.. getting shodan in iai is by winning a competition? seems a strange way to grade iai....
sounds like a tough pass! congratulations.
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u/TisIChenoir 26d ago
Nah, there was an open, and then at the end of the open they had grade passage.
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u/Erchi 26d ago
Congratulations. For your upcoming months I do recommend training patience. Many people quit around shodan-nidan, because the learning transitions from learning general technique to perfecting it. It requires lot of patience and the improvements are not as obvious as they were till today.
Keep your focus, dont get discouraged if the progress seem slow and you shall be rewarded :)