Less Than Daily

v 4.03: proof if needed that not all roleplayers lead interesting lives

Easy Japaneasy

Last night was my grading for my 6th kyu ninjutsu, I failed.

I didn’t fail cos I can’t do the techniques, I didn’t fail cos I’m a poor ninJA, I didn’t fail cos I hadn’t trained hard enough.

I failed cos I don’t speak Japanese.

There were four of us going for sixth kyu, 3 of us failed … for not being able to speak Japanese.

We were called up two by two (I went up with WrongMark), and the grader shouted instructions at us in Japanese … to which we generally could do nothing but stand there bemused and shrug … we don’t speak Japanese!

Gradings have never been carried out like that before, we didn’t have any warning that speaking Japanese would be important to this one …

bah!

Still seventh kyu ninJA

Here’s what some Passing Idiots had to say:

  1. MarkA avatar
    MarkA

    I too failed. I too am 7th Kyu still.

    See my blog entitled FOUL Mood where I state: “I failed my Ninja grading last night because I can’t speak Japanese and didn’t actually get any opportunity to really show what I can do.”

    Am gutted, and feel cheated. As my own blog states: I am in a FOUL mood.

    M

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  2. PrinceGaz avatar
    PrinceGaz

    Did your sensei or whatever not say you’d be shouted at in Japanese for the test, or did the guy testing you suddenly decide to do things differently? Is knowing Japanese even part of ninjitsu? (I imagine it was originally, but I mean how its taught here)

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  3. mcphee avatar
    mcphee

    There was no prior indication, the techniques are usually referred to by their Japanese names in training … but there was never any clue that learning the Japanese names would be ever tested 🙁

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