Super Jumping Men waza?
My kendo sucks!
Yesterday's practice was mostly taken up with helping the beginners practice hitting an armoured target. This and the warm up took most of the 2 hours.
Anyway, going on to the main point of this post, I have somehow developed a jumping style men cut that goes up instead of going forward. I had a very tall opponent so that may have had something to do with it. Or maybe its because I changed the balance in my kamae a bit. I used to have the weight distributed between my left and right foot as 30 and 70%, but last night, I tried doing it 50-50, so more weight on my left foot than usual. So thus when I launch for a cut, I'm not leaning forward as much so I kinda went straight up... Really weird feeling, and completely wrong. After a few of these cuts, my opponent advised me to use my hara, which I did, and it worked when I actually thought about using my hara, but then I let it go from my mind only to find that I reverted back to the jumping cut. So from now on, during kihon practice, I really need to push from my 'hara' and not push from my feet, ie. when cutting, think of the hara forcing me forward, and not the left foot.
Apart from that, jigeiko was 'normal' with my other opponents. I need to think about my kendo more during jigeiko. Most of the time I seem to not remember what I did, unless it was really really really really ridiculously obvious, just like the example above.
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Yesterday's practice was mostly taken up with helping the beginners practice hitting an armoured target. This and the warm up took most of the 2 hours.
Anyway, going on to the main point of this post, I have somehow developed a jumping style men cut that goes up instead of going forward. I had a very tall opponent so that may have had something to do with it. Or maybe its because I changed the balance in my kamae a bit. I used to have the weight distributed between my left and right foot as 30 and 70%, but last night, I tried doing it 50-50, so more weight on my left foot than usual. So thus when I launch for a cut, I'm not leaning forward as much so I kinda went straight up... Really weird feeling, and completely wrong. After a few of these cuts, my opponent advised me to use my hara, which I did, and it worked when I actually thought about using my hara, but then I let it go from my mind only to find that I reverted back to the jumping cut. So from now on, during kihon practice, I really need to push from my 'hara' and not push from my feet, ie. when cutting, think of the hara forcing me forward, and not the left foot.
Apart from that, jigeiko was 'normal' with my other opponents. I need to think about my kendo more during jigeiko. Most of the time I seem to not remember what I did, unless it was really really really really ridiculously obvious, just like the example above.
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posted by Son at 10:43 am
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