Big Wooden Cross In Front Yard...Yay Or Nay...?
One of the best things about the housing market having turned to shit is I no longer care about if something I do will make my house less marketable. So if I want to have a training pagoda in my backyard I build one.
As my next project, I'm thinking about building a sword cross (also known as a ken makiwara). Basically it is a 6 foot high wooden fence post bisected about 18" from the top by a 3 foot 2x4 which results in a wooden cross.
The purpose of such a device is as a training aid for wooden swords (Bokken in classical Japanese fencing). If anyone has seen the Spartacus series on Starz they use the same thing and it is a common training aid in many ancient cultures.
It is also a great way to develop strong sword technique and a great workout. As a bonus if the neighbors are being loud late at night I can go beat a wooden cross with a wooden sword and it tends to send a message of mild annoyance at their shenanigans. This is of course a very minor consideration.
But I'm not completely sure I want a 6 foot wooden cross in my front yard. There is obviously the KKK connotation and I don't want anyone thinking I'm in the Klan or being persecuted by the Klan. I normally could care less what people think but I try not to do things that might put my house on everyone's radar. Alternatively I don't want a bunch of people to assume I'm some born again deeply religious individual.
But I really do miss the kind of training where you can go pretty much all out with powerful strikes and full speed combinations of strikes against a target that offers resistance.
And before somebody asks, the backyard is not an option, I have too much going on back there already.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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