Monday, November 11, 2013

A couple けんどう matches from the 61st All日本けんどう Championships

This is a video of the All 日本けんどう Championships Final match.   うちむらりょち先生とこたにあきのり先生 are the けのうか competing in this match.  In けんどう, all けんどうか who have a rank of よんだん or higher are referred to as 先生。 うちむら先生はろくだんです。とうきょうからきました。こたに先生はごだんです。ちばからきました。With regard to the colors assigned to them, from what I could tell, うちむら先生はしろいです。こたに先生はあかいです。


This is the university finals match.  The schools competing are つくば大学とほさい大学です。 If you look at the scoreboard, you can see the names of the players and the scores.  Given that the names are all in かんじ, I don't know them.  But I do recognize 山下.  I'm guessing that's pronounced やました?  Anyway, I'll explain scoring briefly.  In a team competition, the team with the higher number of wins (I guess they'd be sets in a match?  I don't know how to call each of the individual bouts) wins.  Kinda simple, right?  Not really.  In team matches, each bout can end in a tie (unlike individuals matches).  So, in this case, you have only three けんどうか who scored.  山下 scored two men (head strikes) on his opponent, and so has two メ (I'm not sure if "men", or the other scores are written in かたかな or ひらがな  in Japanese).  His opponent scored one kotei (wrist strike), and so received one コ。  Another member of one of the teams (I don't know which is which, sorry) scored one "do" (strike to the torso), and so scored ド.  This lead to the need for there to be a final bout between one member of each team.


Hope you enjoy!

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Reflections on PE and New Goal Statement

Reflections:

I feel that my PE was better before the break, because after working on this one, I feel that my pronunciation got worse over recess.  I think I'm using more stress accent than pitch accent again, but on the bright side, I feel that I'm keeping more the rhythm of Japanese.

One thing I haven't done is practice shadowing every day as I had planned, and this definitely hurt my performance.

New Goal (or really old goal rehashed):

Work on a shadowing exercise at least ten minutes every day.  Such a small amount of time means that I can use it as a filler between other assignments, and still gets me working.

あきあすみ

あきやすみにペンシルベニア大学にいきました。ペンシルベニア大学でデバトをしました。そして、わたしのうちにかえりました。うちでテレビをみました、そしてインテrネトでアニメをみました。ほんもよみました。