Sore wrist
My right wrist seems to be getting worse. Told someone in my office about it, and he made a comment about a 'cement mixer', ie, when I rotate it, it makes a bit of a scrunching sound, bit like a muffled cement mixer I guess. Got another sharp sting in it during monday's training. Hmm, maybe I should try using a heat pack on it during or after trainings...
Anyway, didn't get much out of the last training. Can't seem to remember much, except for my jigeiko with last years club junior shiai champion. He's faster than I thought (or maybe its just because I had a slower opponent before that). I can see why he won that shiai. Good straight cuts. He only cuts men, which is what I have bene doing myself lately. I do about 80-90% men cuts and the rest is kote during jigeiko (every now and then I might try a kaeshi dou but I can only remember doing 3 since I started kendo this year). Well I've kinda vowed to just concentrate on my men cuts lately. I figured, why move onto kote and dou if I can't even do men. I figured that even if I'm predictable and my opponents know I'm going to do a men cut, then I need to improve it a lot to get a scoring cut (ie. it might get a lot harder before it gets easier). But I guess my aim is that, by the time I can do regularly scoring men cuts, then I should be really good at it, but as it stands now, I suck. One thing I distinctly remember from my match with this guy was my tsuki! Well not really tsuki, but a men cut (yes another one... man I suck). Anyway, can't remember what actually happened, all a bit too fast, but I just went for a men cut and tried to follow through, but he must have leaned back or something because I hit him square on the tsuki! Fellt really good because it was right on target. He even said himself it felt good! (I guess as far as tsuki goes anyway). Too bad I yelled out men!
I've been concentrating on the use of my hara. Had a bit of a revelation today, in that I need to use my stomach muscles to maintiain my posture. Will try it at tomorrow's training.
Interesting thing happened yesterday. The training structure was the same as per last week. I happened to line up against the guy that mentioned that I was fighting from too close a distance. Anyway, just found out that he's a shodan, not high kyu grade. Anyway, he's training to be a jodan player, and I got to experience some of this training first hand. First time I've ever gone against anyone in jodan-no-kamae. First time was when he did kiri kaeshi against me from jodan!. The 9 cuts were pretty much done single handedly. He was kinda slow but that's expected, and its diagonal cuts too! I tried to practice this myself but it was very hard... too hard to control the angle of the cut. Hope to jigeiko with him in jodan sometime.
Anyway, didn't get much out of the last training. Can't seem to remember much, except for my jigeiko with last years club junior shiai champion. He's faster than I thought (or maybe its just because I had a slower opponent before that). I can see why he won that shiai. Good straight cuts. He only cuts men, which is what I have bene doing myself lately. I do about 80-90% men cuts and the rest is kote during jigeiko (every now and then I might try a kaeshi dou but I can only remember doing 3 since I started kendo this year). Well I've kinda vowed to just concentrate on my men cuts lately. I figured, why move onto kote and dou if I can't even do men. I figured that even if I'm predictable and my opponents know I'm going to do a men cut, then I need to improve it a lot to get a scoring cut (ie. it might get a lot harder before it gets easier). But I guess my aim is that, by the time I can do regularly scoring men cuts, then I should be really good at it, but as it stands now, I suck. One thing I distinctly remember from my match with this guy was my tsuki! Well not really tsuki, but a men cut (yes another one... man I suck). Anyway, can't remember what actually happened, all a bit too fast, but I just went for a men cut and tried to follow through, but he must have leaned back or something because I hit him square on the tsuki! Fellt really good because it was right on target. He even said himself it felt good! (I guess as far as tsuki goes anyway). Too bad I yelled out men!
I've been concentrating on the use of my hara. Had a bit of a revelation today, in that I need to use my stomach muscles to maintiain my posture. Will try it at tomorrow's training.
Interesting thing happened yesterday. The training structure was the same as per last week. I happened to line up against the guy that mentioned that I was fighting from too close a distance. Anyway, just found out that he's a shodan, not high kyu grade. Anyway, he's training to be a jodan player, and I got to experience some of this training first hand. First time I've ever gone against anyone in jodan-no-kamae. First time was when he did kiri kaeshi against me from jodan!. The 9 cuts were pretty much done single handedly. He was kinda slow but that's expected, and its diagonal cuts too! I tried to practice this myself but it was very hard... too hard to control the angle of the cut. Hope to jigeiko with him in jodan sometime.
posted by Son at 6:26 pm
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Thanks for the comments Kev. I'll take help anywhere I can get it.
I'm trying to throw in more kote cuts into my repertoire and a few more dou cuts now and then. I saw on one post on the umkc forum where the ratio of wining cuts was something like 50% men, 48% kote, 1% dou and 1% tsuki. I think I'll try to get this kinda ratio in my cuts (excluding tsuki of course).
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