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My wife, two daughters, and I love to practice kendo together. She paused, puzzled at my inquiry.but after a few moments she suddenly said, "Oh!, I was having a dream about being in a kendo tournament." In that dream, she said she got the most beautiful point, striking her opponent's head along with a strong foot stomp. So I shook her shoulder to wake her up and asked her why she had kicked me. I wondered if I did something wrong, but no.she was still asleep. I looked over at her and she was smiling. "Ouch!" My wife had kicked me randomly in the middle of the night.
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Like karate, he said, the goal is self-improvement, but he added "getting to use swords is pretty cool.Make life's journey a more wonderful experience by embarking on a tour with kendo! We train with invisible opponents to dominate them and being calm while you do it." It's all about bettering yourself rather than beating the other person.
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"You have to have a calmness of mind while doing iaido. Wagler says iaido is more a competition with oneself than an opponent. Winning is also reassurance that what I have been practicing is correct and that I am on the right path for the future," he said. As the saying goes, 'Winning isn't everything.' It's true, I've learned a lot from the experiences I've had during competition and experience is much more valuable to me than titles. "I am glad and surprised I did well, it was a hard fought victory.
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"I wanted to represent Canada and show them what we've all about," he said. Competitors go head-to-head by standing next to each other and demonstrating their skills to judges who select winners. There are a lot of talented people down there so I didn't really have any expectations at all." "I didn't really have too many expectations, just show up and do what you can do to put your best foot forward. There were about 100 competitors in total with 12 to 15 in each division, he said. "I was surprised to see how many showed up." "It was my first time doing international travel for martial arts so I had no idea who was going to be there," said Wagler, a Durham College grad who is an estimator for a millwork installation firm in Whitby. He won all four of his matches defeating an opponent from Massachusetts in the final after going 3-0 in Etobicoke where he also beat an American opponent in the final. He was a gold medallist as a beginner at the 2013 Canadian championships.Ĭompeting against swordsmen from across North American, he had no idea what to expect in New Jersey. It had been two years since Wagler's last competition where he won three bronze medals at the 2016 Canadian championships as a second-degree black belt. His performance there earned him selection to Team Canada for the U.S. It came on the heels of a gold medal performance at an international tournament in Etobicoke in December. Wagler, a third-degree black belt in both iaido and karate, won a gold medal representing Team Canada at the East Coast Iaido Taikai Seminar in Jersey City, N.J. The 22-year-old Oshawa native has been coming to Peterborough's Kenshokan Dojo, on Brock Street, for six years to learn iaido and karate under sensei Jim Wilson. Warren Wagler has learned the way of the sword well from his Peterborough sensei.