The good samaritan
Came late to training last night because of my experiments. Should realise by now that I can't split cells within 30 mins. It never goes as planned!
Anyway, came late. Just managed to put my bogu on as the warmup finished. Was still tying my dou himo during mokuso... very bad form! Luckily, we started with some kata because there is a grading this sunday and I guess some people wanna cram in kata practice for their exam. Had a shortish partner for this. Did 1, 2 and 3, then added 4 to my repertoire. 1 and 2 are quite easy. Just have to work on getting better distancing (with all my kata). Then worked on 3. Having trouble with the footwork of the uchidachi. I kinda lose the rhythm of the backwards step during and after the counter attack. Should practice at home, but its not the same... ie. hard to work out distance, whish is my main problem. Then went onto kata 4. Most interesting of the kata I've done so far as it involves 2 different kamae that we don't ever use in kendo, hassou and waki. I really like waki-gamae. Its the same one used by the old samurai in seven samurai. He just looks so cool doing it, and kills the other guy in jodan! Wish I can go in waki-gamae during jigeiko against jodan, hehe, would be quite a site. Anyway, again, with this one, I was having trouble getting the right distance. And I'm still unsure if we take a small step back after the swords cross to correct the distance. I found that if I didn't step back, then I'd cut with the wrong part of the bokken. Well... just another thing to work on. Not that I really need to though... won't be going for shodan grading for quite a while.
Anyway, after this we did the usual pattern for training (1 senior in armour, 1 junior in armour + 2 clubbers! err I mean juniors...). Just did some kiri kaeshi and uchikomi. Didn't really go all out because I still hadn't done a proper warmup at this point. So after this, sempai (can't remember what the term for dojo steward. He's in charge because sensei will be away for the next 5 weeks) asked for 2 senior-ish members to help the juniors. Now I don't consider myself senior-ish, but I didn't think I could do proper training without my warmup so I volunteered....
Mistake gone wrong!!!
hehe. Well it wasn't that bad. But I learnt my lesson. I was pretty much just standing there being clubbed. Men and dou cuts weren't too bad. But kote... well lets just say I'm amazed my arm is still attached! Most were cutting okay, but a couple weren't using their tenouchi to stop the shinai properly. Oh, yeah, and I recieved 1 dou cut just a bit too high and it made me wince a bit. Man, I sound like such a pussy. I guess it was good to watch what they were doing right or wrong and made me think about my own kendo.
Anyway, came late. Just managed to put my bogu on as the warmup finished. Was still tying my dou himo during mokuso... very bad form! Luckily, we started with some kata because there is a grading this sunday and I guess some people wanna cram in kata practice for their exam. Had a shortish partner for this. Did 1, 2 and 3, then added 4 to my repertoire. 1 and 2 are quite easy. Just have to work on getting better distancing (with all my kata). Then worked on 3. Having trouble with the footwork of the uchidachi. I kinda lose the rhythm of the backwards step during and after the counter attack. Should practice at home, but its not the same... ie. hard to work out distance, whish is my main problem. Then went onto kata 4. Most interesting of the kata I've done so far as it involves 2 different kamae that we don't ever use in kendo, hassou and waki. I really like waki-gamae. Its the same one used by the old samurai in seven samurai. He just looks so cool doing it, and kills the other guy in jodan! Wish I can go in waki-gamae during jigeiko against jodan, hehe, would be quite a site. Anyway, again, with this one, I was having trouble getting the right distance. And I'm still unsure if we take a small step back after the swords cross to correct the distance. I found that if I didn't step back, then I'd cut with the wrong part of the bokken. Well... just another thing to work on. Not that I really need to though... won't be going for shodan grading for quite a while.
Anyway, after this we did the usual pattern for training (1 senior in armour, 1 junior in armour + 2 clubbers! err I mean juniors...). Just did some kiri kaeshi and uchikomi. Didn't really go all out because I still hadn't done a proper warmup at this point. So after this, sempai (can't remember what the term for dojo steward. He's in charge because sensei will be away for the next 5 weeks) asked for 2 senior-ish members to help the juniors. Now I don't consider myself senior-ish, but I didn't think I could do proper training without my warmup so I volunteered....
Mistake gone wrong!!!
hehe. Well it wasn't that bad. But I learnt my lesson. I was pretty much just standing there being clubbed. Men and dou cuts weren't too bad. But kote... well lets just say I'm amazed my arm is still attached! Most were cutting okay, but a couple weren't using their tenouchi to stop the shinai properly. Oh, yeah, and I recieved 1 dou cut just a bit too high and it made me wince a bit. Man, I sound like such a pussy. I guess it was good to watch what they were doing right or wrong and made me think about my own kendo.
posted by Son at 10:26 am
2 Comments:
did i hear someone call me a shortish kata partner...
um... yeah... I didn't say short, I said short-ish... ie shorter than myself... a little bit... :)
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