Suburi at school or kirikaeshi in the classroom?

You will have to forgive the alliteration for this post’s title. Getting creative on a Friday afternoon could be considered a tall order!

I was approached today at work by one of the other history teachers. He is a judoka and next term his Year 7 History class will be looking at Feudal Japan. His question to me was whether I would be free to bring my bogu and shinai into class and give a short talk on kendo. He would do the same with Judo. I agreed – I have no idea when this will be but I can imagine that it will be quite a bit of fun. The students love this sort of stuff as they get a chance to see how something like bushido manifests itself in the world today – I think the whole idea of swords and armour probably has quite a bit to do with it as well. After all, these are 12 and 13 year old boys!

So, suburi at school? Kirikaeshi in the classroom? I was thinking of actually practising suburi in the gym during a free lesson. Looks like I will be demonstrating it in the classroom instead!

~ by timothyscott on 19 June, 2009.