Not much to say: it was good

2013-01-12 13:33:00

There's not much to say about today's training as it simply was a good, solid training. 

1.5 years ago I wrote about a kendo dummy that I would love to build. Lo and behold! Ton-sensei has built two for the dojo: one child-sized and one adult-sized. They look cool and after tweaking them a bit, many of our beginners were very happy to use them in training. 

After inspecting the dojo shinai I proceeded to go through kata #1-#4 with Hugo. Since he told me he was pretty rusty (he's often absent because of school) I took a firm lead and escorted him through the first three, correcting where needed. When we got to #4 I'm glad that Ton-sensei corrected a number of things I was doing wrong (most importantly, stab too high and at a wrong angle).

During footwork practice I was reminded yet again that I have trouble combinining okuri ashi with fumikomi: whenever I need to jump while going forward, I always overstep with the left foot before the jump. The timing is completely off: instead of jumping right after pulling the left leg in, my body tries to jump after the right foot has gone forward again. It's crappy.

Kihon and waza practice went pretty well, but it was jigeiko that stood out for me today :)

• Herman started in bogu today. Since he's still getting used to it all, I spent five minutes letting him do kihon techniques on me. The first time wearing kote during practice feels weird! :)
• Hugo wanted more practice with the kaeshi-dou that we learned in class. After giving it fifteen or so runs, I showed it to him in slow motion. That led to a lot better results and we were both happy with the progress he made :) It was also a nice chance for me to practice hayai men.
• Nick-sempai was kind enough to let me do at least thirty hayai men. Using his explanation I was finally able to make four excellent hayai men strikes. The sound that makes is so different! I was so happy to finally hear myself causing that sound! /o/

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