Dear Hundred Suburi Club Members
Happy New Year and wish all of you a peaceful, healthy and happy 2022!
I hope to use this post to welcome all of you again, no matter if you joined this Group in 2018, 2019, 2020 or 2021.
We are now a four years old!!!
We might not know each other. We might not even be Facebook friends. However, Kendo is the common thing among us and Suburi is the core.
Below are some analytics from the Admin views - I hope to use these screenshots to express my appreciation.
I started this club because of a message from Hayashi Sensei when I returned home from the 2017 Kitamoto Summer Seminar. Hayashi sensei encouraged me to try to have 10 suburi a day, and from basic math, I would have about three thousand suburi a year later. This is a great example of accumulating small efforts to achieve a big goal.
While sharing this idea chat with my students here in Waikato, one interpreted that Sensei’s idea is to encourage us to have “10 good suburi” rather than just “10 suburi”. I was then inspired by this idea of quality over quantity. Assuming our quality rate is 10%, then we should have the “10 good suburi”, which will be a good nutrient of our Kendo. This is the main idea of starting this Hundred Suburi Club.
I feel privileged that many of you agree with this idea by accepting my invitation to join this club and even inviting your Kendo students or friends to join this group.
The group activities have been simple. Most of the posts are just our Suburi Logs. However, due to the fact that we are all living in different time zones, the 24 hour non-stopping notifications become good reminders and encouragements allowing me to know that there are so many Kendoka out there putting time and effort toward Kendo diligently. This certainly makes our Kendo journey less lonely. I thank you for that.
During 2020 and 2021, I had some small injuries and family commitment. The Covid is also not helpful. All these made me not be able to do suburi every day, sometimes even could not even LIKE your suburi log, as I wish to do. Of course, sometimes I was just tired or lazy.
As the time rolls on in 2022, I sincerely invite all of you to pick up shinai, having daily suburi, keeping your suburi log here, encouraging both yourself and others, and let’s have a great 2022 together in Kendo and in Life.
