弓道のプレゼン

 The kyudo presentation was pretty interesting, although the person next to me was falling asleep which was pretty funny. A lot of the slides were much about the history of the bow in Japan, interestingly I didn't expect the gun to be introduced as early as the 16th century in Japan, and yet the bow still continued to survive beyond that. Also, the usage of circles for technique I thought was pretty smart, and I found the "mini demonstration" with the slingshot like thing to be a satisfying replacement for the demonstration. I also liked how he explained that there is no purpose or goal for kyudo, there really is only doing it just to do it and there shouldn't be any real target you should be striving to achieve. Overall I enjoyed it, although it started smelling like fish halfway through.