UGB Chapter 129
Chapter 129
Chapter 129 Shooting an arrow, life force
The Ogasawara family is famous for its strict etiquette and strictness.
Etiquette, bow horsemanship, sencha ceremony, and archery are all involved.
The first ancestor is more than 700 years old.
The 32nd contemporary suzerain, Ogasawara Town, is the eldest son of Tokiyoshi Ogasawara.
"I thought it would be very stressful to study here, Mr. Ogasawara, but I didn't expect it to be so relaxing."
"Relaxation is relaxation, but do you understand the breathing method that the teacher said?"
"No, but Mr. Ogasawara asked me to touch the muscles on his arm when he drew the bow. It was really relaxed! But when we drew the bow, the muscles were tense and stiff."
"Oh, I really don't know how the teacher did it."
A day and a half was meaninglessly wasted for the members of the Archery Department.
Kaoru Uesugi calmly looked at the clear water of the brook, listening to the chirping of night cicadas.
"Uesugi, your barbecue."
"grateful."
Kaoru Uesugi took the barbecue, and started to eat the barbecue while watching the splash of the stream water splashing on the stone.
"Why doesn't Uesugi have a barbecue together?" Fuko Sakurai came with a pile of vegetables and sat beside the cold Ogata Asaka.
"Ah, don't you know, Senpai? Uesugi-senpai can only sit at a time like this." Chitose Mayi said while grilling vegetables.
"Only sitting?"
"That's right, the last time everyone ate a senior's barbecue, they were all stunned—either there was too much salt, or the roast was too dry, and it looked like there was no food at all."
"Hey, it shouldn't be. Don't you want to roast barbecue just casually, and it's fine when it's golden?" Fuko Sakurai didn't attend the last dinner because of something.
Hearing the conversation of several girls, Hirata Masanobu smiled, "Experience the nature of the ingredients with your heart, just like practicing kyudo, you must grill meat with a calm heart, and people with chaotic minds cook with emotional poison."
Hideyoshi Tsuboi took a bite of the venison on the skewer and glanced at him, "Do you think Uesugi's mood is not as equal as yours?"
Hirata Masanobu supported his head and smiled, "Haha, in terms of archery and bow art, he is indeed better than me."
Chitose Zhenyi turned the vegetables in his hands, and they sizzled under the burning of the fiery red charcoal.
She raised her pretty eyebrows and said, "So what Hirata-senpai said just now was a lie?"
"It's a lie. I don't think so. I think it makes sense."
Chitose Zhenyi suddenly thought of something, "I saw it from the Internet?"
Masanobu Hirata smiled, "That's right."
Chitose Mayi said "Huh~", "Senior Hirata's words are completely unbelievable."
Uesugi Kai listened to them discussing himself, and silently ate half of the venison on the barbecue grill.
It seems that there is no topic to be found, and everyone has been discussing "why Uesugi can't cook".
Ultimately, they came to the conclusion to ask themselves.
"Senior, why?"
"Ask me?" Uesugi Oki said softly, "It's probably not necessary, I don't want to learn."
In fact, his cooking was fixed at -10 from the beginning, and it was completely upgraded after reaching -9.
"Well, the main reason is laziness." After thinking for a while, he added.
Ogata Asaka, who had been silent but was sitting with everyone, said, "He has a younger sister who cooks for him, so of course he doesn't need to learn cooking."
The younger sister refers to Xiaohuahuo.
Members of the Kyudo Department sometimes make fun of him with this matter.
Who told him to talk nonsense about relationships?
Uesugi Kai inexplicably felt that there was something in her words, and suddenly remembered that she also had a younger sister.
"Flower sauce?"
Hearing Hanamaru Hanabi, Chitose Zhenyi suddenly said with emotion, "Ah~ Why didn't senior bring Hanabi-chan over to sleep together? There are only three girls in the bow department, and Ogata-senpai doesn't like to talk, it's so boring."
"She's not from the Kyudo Department."
In fact, Kai Uesugi also wanted to bring Hanamaru Hanabi, but there were too many restrictions, and there was no reason.
You can't let her come over just to watch everyone train.
Shaking his head, he gave up on this idea, and just chatted with her while soaking in the hot spring.
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Life without a girlfriend is boring.
On the third day, everyone who trained until the afternoon still couldn't grasp the knack of breathing rhythm, and they were all very depressed about it.
"Where does the problem lie, have you thought about it?"
Ogasawara Tokiyoshi, who was dressed in a pure white bow uniform, had his hands behind his back. From his rigid appearance, it can be seen that he was serious and serious when he was young.
Most members of the Archery Department looked at each other in blank dismay, with doubts on their faces.
After two days of learning, they still haven't realized anything, and their shame even makes them think that they are not suitable for learning archery.
Suhei Sugita sat quietly by the side without making a sound.
"Uesugi, what do you think?" Ogasawara Shiqing suddenly turned his head and asked him, and all the members of the Kyudo Club looked at him in unison.
——If Hanabi is in this situation, the pressure will be doubled, but Uesugi Kai doesn't take everyone's attention seriously.
"Too serious."
Everyone didn't understand what he said.
What does take too seriously mean?Isn't it good to study hard?
"That's what I mean."
Tokiyoshi Ogasawara laughed unexpectedly, and then faced the kneeling crowd in the bow dojo.
"In the past two days of training, I have seen everyone's hard work and great enthusiasm."
"I have studied and studied my words very hard, but do you know why you say you are too serious?"
Ogasawara Shiqing turned around slowly, picked up the stand and set it up, his own bamboo bow that had been used for many years, and then drew the bowstring in vain.
The arms are as relaxed as if there is no effort.
"What should you pay attention to when drawing the bow? Movement, posture, position, cross-stroke, breathing."
"——These actions are all complementing each other, but what have you only noticed in the past few days of training?"
"Breathe, just breathe."
"You're trying to figure out how it's going to be done, how it's going to have the rhythm and rhythm that I have, and you're so focused on breathing like you have nothing else to do."
Ogasawara Shiqing lowered his bow, and looked around at the crowd who had suddenly realized.
"When shooting an arrow, there is more than just breathing."
"As for why I didn't say your question until now, to quote a sentence developed by "Bow Saint" Awa——"
"If you point out the problem at the beginning, he can't convince you that the breathing exercise has played a decisive role in you. Just like after falling into the water, you have to suffer a little by your own efforts before you are willing to catch others and throw it at you. Your lifebuoy."
"And this life buoy will be very clear in your mind."
"Shoot an arrow, life force."
"Please remember this sentence."
In the next few days, several people who participated in the team competition and individual competition started hellish training.
The last day of the camp.
In this bamboo forest dojo, the five people who practiced for a week began to show the same shooting pattern to this teacher Ogasawara who taught them carefully.
The clear blue sky, the swaying green bamboos, reflect the young people's chords resounding through the sky.
(End of this chapter)