#kyu

British Kendama Associationthebka@kendama.co.uk
2025-07-15

BKA Gradees

We’ve rebuilt the Gradees gallery here, because the old software we were using for it is now out of date. See the Grades page for what this is all about.

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https://kendama.co.uk/b/bka-gradees/

A happy kendama player displaying his new 4th Dan certificate, stood next to his examiner
2025-05-27
For last week's stream I started a new piece in my sketchbook. Just to play around with my newly purchased set of Arrtx markers.
The colour scheme was inspired by an alternative marketing artwork for KCD2 I found in the artbook.

#sketchbook #Kyu #oc #originalcharacters #arrtx #traditionalart
2025-03-29
I pushed through with yesterday's stream and finished this piece of Kyu's first sighting of Kazim on an ethereal plane.

There were a couple of moments where I thought I might've levelled up during my break, while I was painting the boots.

#digitalart #digitalpainting #oc #ocsky #kyu #kazim
My OCs Kyu and Kazim stand opposite each other on an ethereal plane. Kazim is only half-there as a spectre. The ground is water and ripples around them, above a clear night sky with the galactic band going through the image, still a hint of twilight on the horizon. For both the white streaks of hair and fur are glowing.
2025-02-25

Deswegen auch noch einmal am Sonntag noch gespielt im 4-Personen Spiel. Sowohl Freitag als auch SOnntag gingen die Spiele an mich. Am Sonntag mit 69-67-66-62 Punkten. Das freut mich, dass es knapp ist, da man so sieht, dass es ziemlich ausgeglichen ist.
Dann spielten wir #kyu - ein Spiel der 10 Traders (ein Zusammenschluss von Spielelädenbesitzern aus Deutschland). Das Spiel hatte ich in Essen besorgt (wie auch milkuro). Es war eine 4er-Partie, das nicht so gut war wie in Essen. 7/9

Kyu
2024-12-12
Drew a picture of my OC Kyu. She's a sad lady and that's about all she knows about herself.


#OC #originalcharacter #art #digitalart #portrait #Kyu
red_rooster :coolified:red_rooster@sueden.social
2024-11-03

Hurrah,

the term citrus grades for the 5th, 4th and 3rd #Kyu with the belt colours lemon yellow, orange orange and lime green has made it into the official course report on Facebook.
Well, it says citrus corner for the side of the mat where the kyu kneel down, but still.

I think citrus grade is more likeable and sounds fresher than simply ‘beginner’

#Aikido #budo

red_rooster :coolified:red_rooster@sueden.social
2024-11-03

Hurrah,

der Begriff Zitrusgrade für den 5. 4. und 3. #Kyu mit den Gürtelfarben Zitronengelb, Apfelsinenorange und Limtettengrün hat es in offiziellen Lehrgangsbericht auf Facebook geschafft.
Gut, da steht Zitrusecke für die Seite der Matte wo die Kyu abknieen aber immerhin.

Ich finde Zitrusgrade ist doch sympathischer und klingt frischer als einfach "Anfänger"

#Aikido #budo

2024-10-27
While I'm stumbling along writing the beginning of her story, I indulge in drawing later parts of it.

Including Kyu fighting a zombie dragon.

The premise of the story is, that creatures from another dimension entered "ours" and they tend to possess corpses and in rare cases the living. Kyu is one of the few who know how to drive these extra-dimensional beings out again.

And boy I don't want to fail delivering on that premise!

#storyWIP #digitalart #digitalillustration #zombiedragon #dragon #Kyu #winter #magic #myart
2024-10-04
For the longest time, I couldn't quite fathom how to draw chibis. Whenever I did, they looked *really* odd.

But then I found the holy grail of chibi drawing: BEANS. BEANS ARE HERE TO DELIVER US!

So, the torsos are beans. That left some stylistics choices to make regarding limbs - thin or thicc, short or long - and the heads/faces. For the eyes I dug deep in my treasure chest of art styles and pulled out some Arina Tanemura, gosh, I love how she draws eyes!

I'll need to draw a couple dozen more chibis to really solidify my process, but the Recentia cast were willing guinea pigs for the first round! (They'll inevitably end up in the coming rounds, too... so yeah).

#ocs #kyu #ayira #wallace #jonathan #characterillustration #characterart #femaleoc #recentia #magic
2024-09-21
While I was on vacation, I ordered a new sketchbook. It is a pretty sketchbook. And it arrived just a couple of days after I returned, so the timing I went for worked out nicely!
And then I felt intimidated by the sketchbook.
Well, I finally tackled it. If that first page is out of the way, it can only get better. Right?
Now the bar for this sketchbook is set high.... this is going to be a lot of fun, lol!
I decided on a stained glass aesthetic for the first page, featuring Kyu and Ayira in their respective windows. Both searching for their place in the world, as neither got what they expected.


Kyu's memory was wiped clean and it's looking less likely by the day that she'll ever recover the person she once was, so she has to find out who she is now and how that reflects on what she is or isn't doing.

Meanwhile, Ayira grew up in the shadow of expectations she can't meet anymore, since the powers she was supposed to inherit went to Kyu. Who is she outside the responsibilities she thought she'd have?

And frankly, I find myself in a similar situation. Less fate-of-the-world-on-my-shoulders, but similar in that I'm not quite sure where I'm going anymore.

I've been lacking a long-term goal for myself and my art ever since I finished Soul's Journey. And I think that shows in what I've been doing since. I've meandered a lot. I grew as an artist, which is good. I can now more comfortably solve artistic problems. But where I am going with everything, I'm not sure.
For now, I'm glad I found the cause of my discontent, it gives me something to work with. The solution won't come over night, that I know, but I can feel my way there :)
This illustration got unexpectedly deep for me.

There's also a process video on youtube: https://youtu.be/FfjG3asYuJY

#Kyu #characterart #characterillustration #oc #femaleoc #Ayira #alcoholmarkers #sketchbook
2024-09-14
Well, somebody got on her bad side :D



Had a sudden urge to draw Kyu, so she got drawn. I don't argue with her, she's the boss!

#Kyu #characterart #characterillustration #magic #guardian #oc #femaleoc #recentia
Sei Shin Ken Kai ry 誠心剣会 Kendo Seinäjokikendosjk@www.kendoseinajoki.fi
2024-08-19

Kendo

Treenejä vetää seurassa kendon puolella pääsääntöisesti Tuomas Koskinen 4. dan ja Markus Ojala 4. dan. Jos ja kun kumpikaan ei ole paikalla, niin vetovastuuta paikkaa Joni Vuorenmaa 4. dan tai Jouni Haapamäki 4. dan. Toki, ajan kanssa treenien vetovastuuta kierrätetään, mutta tuo on ajankohtaista tyypillisesti 1. danin kieppeillä. Kendossa on tasojärjestelmä samaan tapaan kuin monessa muussakin japanilaisessa kamppailulajissa, alempia kyu-asteita on 6.-1. kyu, ylempiä vyöarvoja on sitten 1.-8. dan. Kyu-arvot ovat kansallisia, dan-arvot ovat kansainvälisiä. Euroopan kendoliitto ylläpitää jäsenliittojensa harrastajien yhtenäistä dan-tietokantaa, josta voi käydä tarkistamassa, koska ohjaajan tasokoe on hyväksytysti suoritettu. Allekirjoittaneen tiedot käymällä https://www.ekf-eu.com/index.php?page=person-grades ja lisäämällä Family Name kohtaan Ojala. Tuolta saa tiedon, että vyöarvo on suoritettu 20.6.2021, ja näin ollen mahdollisuus kokeilla 5. danin koetta täyttyy sitten kesäkuussa 2025. Tasokokeiden välinen aika määrittyy yhteisten sääntöjen mukaan.

Iaido

Meidän seurassa harjoitellaan Muso Shinden Ryu iaidoa ja ohjauksesta vastaa pääsääntöisesti Sampsa Pesonen, 6. dan iaido, kendo 1. dan. Seurassa harjoiteltava iaidosta ja taustoista voi lukea lisää Suomen Muso Shinden Ryu ry:n kotisivuilta osoitteesta https://musoshindenryu.fi

Mukaan!

Kendoon otetaan uusia koko elokuun, iaidoon jatkuvasti. Ilmoittaudu mukaan joko SuomiSportissa tai laittamalla meiliä info(ät)kendoseinajoki.fi, tervetuloa!

https://www.kendoseinajoki.fi/seuran-ohjaajat/

#dan #iaido #kendo #kendosjk #kukanäitälukee #kyu #ohjaajat #sensei

Seuran ohjaajat, vasemalta oikealle, Sampsa Pesonen, Tuomas Koskinen, Markus Ojala (men-päässä). Sampsa katsoo oikealle, Tuomas vasemmalle, Markus kameraan, taustalla liikuntahalli. Selfie.
Tekkeikantekkeikan
2024-04-18
2024-03-29

Angenehmer Abend zu viert. Es wurde ein bisschen was durchprobiert. #LebenInReterra (Plättchen legen mit Gebäudeeffekten) #Aqua (Cascadia meets Akropolis) #Kyu (Bluff/Bietergefechte auf Kartenherausforderungen)

Tekkeikantekkeikan
2024-01-23
Tekkeikantekkeikan
2023-12-20

Today our Juniors passed the 4th and 6th Kyu. Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 @tekkeikan

BlueCutBlueCut
2023-08-01

Mon prof d' me donne le 3ème avec :3 va falloir ré-apprendre à se déplacer sans se prendre les pieds dedans...

2023-07-30
"Kyu" was the only name she knew to be hers. However, it didn't ring quite true to her yet. She'd only carried it for a month and important things like names needed a while to stick. ~~ Treating you to the opening lines as they are now - may get changed with editing later on, but I figured they might make a nice hook :P -
I'm still all over the place and unfocused, but art and writing is happening at a slow pace at least! - #digitalart #kyu #recentia #portrait #bust #oc
Vagrant Cascadianvagrantc@floss.social
2023-06-10

Hard to believe I started practicing at my current #Aikido dojo twenty years ago!

Today I had the honor of teaching a full class for the first time...

Focused on #ikkyo (a.k.a. "first technique") as an important component for subsequent #nikyo and #sankyo techniques.

These techniques are on subsequent #kyu tests, which to me are more about building a framework for learning than earning rank!

I hope I conveyed that learning one technique can help with learning other techniques.

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