New Sword Bag!

After a cup of Komodo Dragon coffee and about 10 more caramels than the recommended serving size, I decided I needed a bokken bag. Amazon didn't have anything I liked so pulled out my sewing machine Kimmy and whipped one up. Remember the coffee? I tend to sew "things" when I have too much caffeine. 

I reached for the black and red cloth and then.... my hand touched the baby blue and it just spiraled out of control. The plus side is that A) I don't need to write my name on it B) It doesn't really look threatening as a weapons bag C) I still have room to had more sparkly stuff to it!

I am really glad that I have an instructor that is okay with my … self-expression.

Construction notes: The bottom is reinforced with a foam drink cozy, a plastic bracelet is sewed between the layers of the top to give it form, some of the patches are coin purses (this gives the bag some pockets for the tsuba, keys, mouth gaurd, etc.), holds two bokken.

Weapon bags for Kobudo: Searching

I have not (yet) found the perfect way to bring my weapons to Kobudo. I dislike having them in a jumble in my gym bag because the other gear could mess them up, they could mess up the other gear, it is hard to lay a hand on exactly which weapon I need at any given time and it is hard to see at glance if I have them all.

I have seen few cases on the internet that store a set of kama, tonfa and sai together. Someone in my dojo has this one:

The problem is that is it is large and it is time consuming and inconvenient to strap all the individual weapons into their respective places. Knowing that I would never take the time kept me from buying this bag.

I found one picture of a case like this (http://www.kobudo-tesshinkan.eu/News/news-en.php):

This case looks genius but a little bigger than I need (only 3 weapons) and it looks like it is international which would complicate things.

Sooooo… I decided to make my own!

All those skills I got in high school making my own purses will finally come in handy! It can't be too much different to make the perfect pouch for a tonfa than the perfect pocket for a lipstick!