And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I lived in Japan for a while and I recall seeing grade-school boys on their way home from the dojo in the afternoons wearing their kendo kit and carrying their bamboo practice katana. Good times.
Kendo...
ReplyDeleteCoiled and ready to assemble my sandwich.
ReplyDeleteShe looks nothing like John Belushi
DeleteI lived in Japan for a while and I recall seeing grade-school boys on their way home from the dojo in the afternoons wearing their kendo kit and carrying their bamboo practice katana. Good times.
ReplyDeleteThey're called shinai, because they can flex. The solid wood ones are bokken.
DeleteNot really, she's doesn't have her helmet , chest protection or gloves on
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that she isn't in training armor will console you after she schools you in kendo.
DeleteBTW bamboo sword vs bare skin will leave reminders of your foolish sandwich command for the rest of your life.
She's going commando under the robe?
ReplyDeleteYou grab her stick, and I’ll check!
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Cute gal! - Snakepit
ReplyDeleteA picture of absolute awareness without effort - zanshin
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