Chapter 13 Mentoring
Kamiizumi Hidekawa didn't seem to think that someone would come to visit at that time - now this kind of ancient stream kendo gym is not popular, the training is tired, the threshold is high, and the ability to learn is also inapplicable dragon slaying techniques, and even after you learn the ancient stream kendo, you may not be able to pass the rating of kendo--people are the number of stages of competitive kendo, and your ancient kendo.
This dojo is the ancestral business of Kamiizumi Hidekawa, he is a well-known swordsman in the kendo circle, and he is not short of money, and opening this kendo hall is more like the inheritance of the kendo school, rather than to collect money from the disciples.
So, he gave Kiyoshi Uesugi a chance, who visited rashly.
He asked Uesugi Kiyoshi to practice the basic nine styles of Guliu Kendo.
That is: Tang bamboo, robe chop, reverse robe, left pheasant, right pheasant, left cut up, right cut up, headwind, spike.
The names are quite middle two, in fact, it is the word for cutting rice, plus basic actions such as straight splitting and front stabbing and back stabbing.
This is not a patent of Japanese kendo, and each country has these movements in swordsmanship, but the names are different.
However, these basic movements are the cornerstone of kendo, and in different genres, each technique has different methods of force, some focus on wrist strength, some on speed, some on wide openings and closings, and some on dexterity, and the results achieved are also different.
Uesugi Kiyoshi naturally will not refuse this reasonable request, he has been forced by his father to practice the "Uesugi family family swordsmanship" every day since he was in junior high school, and he has formed a muscle memory for kendo, and he will not forget all the basic skills because of a short period of neglect of training.
After reading Uesugi Kiyoshi's sword structure, Uesugi Hidekawa's face changed slightly, and after a little muttering, he really agreed to accept Uesugi Kiyoshi as a disciple, but put forward more harsh conditions.
He doesn't charge tuition, but he has to come to the dojo to do chores for him for three months, during which he can observe the kendo practice of Kamizumi Hidekawa, teach himself swordsmanship, and after three months, see what level he can reach, and then decide whether to accept Uesugi Kiyoshi as a disciple.
To be honest, after hearing the words "no tuition", Uesugi Kiyoshi was a hundred willing.
As for doing chores, isn't that a matter of course?
In his last life, when he was working part-time in college, he worked as a helper in the back kitchen of a restaurant, and he was fine, but he only worked part-time jobs to earn money.
Those apprentices who go to learn art, who have to work for half a year before they can touch the board, and then cut the dishes for half a year, before they can put their hands on the cold dishes, and want to learn the real skills of hot dishes? Let's boil slowly!
You go to learn art, if you don't pay money, you have to work hard, there are no free benefits in this world, there is no return if you don't pay, he firmly believes in this.
There is a reason why Hidekawa Kamiizumi has the idea of accepting disciples.
He is the orthodox descendant of the new Yin Ryu - his surname is the best proof of this, in the Japanese kendo world, mentioning the surname of Kamiizumi, we have to mention the founder of the new Yin Ryu, the Kamiizumi Ise Mamoru who was revered as a sword saint during the Warring States period - Kamiizumi Shinzuna.
It was a sword master who was given the title of "the best in the world" by the general at the time, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
Throughout Japan's ancient kendo, it is mainly divided into three schools - Ichito-ryu, Shinto-ryu, and Yin-ryu, and the new -Yin-ryu is the most prosperous school in the Yin-ryu.
When he was young, Nobutsuna Uizumi worked in the Uesugi family during the Warring States period and taught as a marksmanship instructor.
Coincidentally, the ancestors of Uesugi Kiyoshi's family were samurai... It's not fake, if he counts up the genealogy and counts to the Warring States Period, he can really have some kinship with the famous general known as the "Dragon of Echigo".
The "Uesugi family family heirloom swordsmanship" he learned in his childhood was actually the swordsmanship experience of the sword saint Nobutsuna Kamiizumi when he was young, and it was similar to the later Shin Yin Liu.
Kamizumi Hidekawa could see at a glance that this young man was learning the orthodox New Yin Stream Sword Formation.
There are thousands of kendo schools in Japan, for example, the sword saint Kamiizumi Shintsuna once had a disciple named Kaida Bungoro, who was his nephew, and Bungoro Akida was recognized by the master.
Similarly, the well-known Yanagi Shin Yin Stream also came about in this way.
You can say that both Kitian Yinryu and Yagyu Shin-Yinryu were born from Shin-Yinryu, but it would be inaccurate to say that these three kendo schools are exactly the same.
Uesugi Kiyoshi learned the art of war book handed down in the early days of the sword saint Kamiizumi Shinzuna, and it is the most orthodox new Yin Liu, and it is no wonder that Kamizumi Hidekawa is happy to see the hunting heart, these years, it is really not easy to find a young man with such solid basic skills and who has practiced his own school of swordsmanship.
Let Uesugi Kiyoshi fight for three months, it's just a test of his heart and morality, as long as it's not very bad, Uesuizumi Hidekawa doesn't mind accepting a disciple.
He felt that it was a great fate to meet Uesugi Kiyoshi, who had learned the orthodox new Yin Stream, and it was God's arrangement, and the Japanese believed in this set very much.
As a result, Uesugi Kiyoshi only played miscellaneous for a week, and Hidekawa Kamizumi couldn't hold it back - this kid is really pleasing to the eye the more he looks at it!
Uesugi Kiyoshi has a foundation in kendo and has talent, which is beyond doubt, his natural capital in kendo is stronger than ordinary people, and he has been systematically trained by his father, so it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a genius in kendo.
In addition, he has the plug-in of the mirage building, every trick he learns, he can go back and ponder in the mirage building for several hours, completely eat thoroughly, and his speed of learning things is much faster than that of ordinary geniuses.
Adding the two, this is a hard-working genius, the kind of character that can be used as the protagonist in the comics.
In addition, he is a second person, has a mature personality, respects teachers very much, is willing to do miscellaneous work, and has great respect for Hidekawa Izumi, and there is no impetuousness and self-righteousness of young people of this age at all, which makes Hidekawa have a very good impression of Uesugi Kiyoshi.
Isn't this a genius disciple given to me by God so that the new Yin Stream can be carried forward in his hands?
Immediately, Hidekawa Kamiizumi took in the entrance to Uesugi Kiyoshi, and treated him as a closed disciple and carefully trained him for a year.
It is no exaggeration to say that Hidekawa Kamizumi is a powerful swordsman in the Japanese kendo world, and his network is hard enough, black and white, and the Metropolitan Police Department and Gokudo often come to ask him to teach swordsmanship - now in this society, there are two professions that can use murder skills: police and gangsters.
His skills as a teacher and his ability to teach and preach are naturally very good.
Therefore, Uesugi Kiyoshi can use a year to cultivate this kind of strong swordsmanship that can kill ghosts and gods.
Talent, hard work, good luck, and the gold finger system - all indispensable.