You Talk Too Much...
I think I better stop giving advice to others at the club. Kinda hard sometimes because some of the things that I see are wrong are just so obvious, and I just want to help them out, but it might not be appreciated as such... coming from such a lowly ranked kendoka and all... I can just imagine it now, they'll be like 'well who the fuck is this guy anyway'. Oh well...
Last night's training was structured the same as the previous trainings. I think I'm getting better at pushing from my legs/hip. I think the key to it is posture. I tried maintaining my posture more last night by using my stomach muscles, and it kinda stops me from reaching forward, which is good I guess. Now I just have to develop some more explosive power from my calf to get me going.
Discovered that I don't have much of a fumikomi (right foot stomp). I read some posts on the club forum about how to do it. It seems you need to have your foot flat to get a good stomp, but I remember be told to do it with just the ball of my foot, and NOT the heel. Stomping with the heel can lead to serious injury is what I was told, if I remember correctly. Will ask someone about it at camp, which is this weekend! Yay! Then I can come back with stories of 'well this one time, at kendo camp....'
A first happened for me last night. I went for a men cut but my oppenent lifted his shinai just before I was about to land and the kensen of his shinai got caught between the slats of my shinai. Had an instantaneous weird feeling just as I was about to show my zanshin.
My bogu is becoming a bit softer, though not that soft. Still had to adjust it midway through training last night cos my ears were hurting quite a bit. My kote are fitting quite nicely now. Still just a tiny bit too tight in the thumb, but otherwise they're fine. Gotta say, this is probably the first set of kote that has come anywhere near fitting me properly.
Last night's training was structured the same as the previous trainings. I think I'm getting better at pushing from my legs/hip. I think the key to it is posture. I tried maintaining my posture more last night by using my stomach muscles, and it kinda stops me from reaching forward, which is good I guess. Now I just have to develop some more explosive power from my calf to get me going.
Discovered that I don't have much of a fumikomi (right foot stomp). I read some posts on the club forum about how to do it. It seems you need to have your foot flat to get a good stomp, but I remember be told to do it with just the ball of my foot, and NOT the heel. Stomping with the heel can lead to serious injury is what I was told, if I remember correctly. Will ask someone about it at camp, which is this weekend! Yay! Then I can come back with stories of 'well this one time, at kendo camp....'
A first happened for me last night. I went for a men cut but my oppenent lifted his shinai just before I was about to land and the kensen of his shinai got caught between the slats of my shinai. Had an instantaneous weird feeling just as I was about to show my zanshin.
My bogu is becoming a bit softer, though not that soft. Still had to adjust it midway through training last night cos my ears were hurting quite a bit. My kote are fitting quite nicely now. Still just a tiny bit too tight in the thumb, but otherwise they're fine. Gotta say, this is probably the first set of kote that has come anywhere near fitting me properly.
posted by Son at 4:51 pm
2 Comments:
I dun really tell people what to do unless they are doing something really really wrong... haha
I always think it's best to learn in kendo ratehr than teach cuz we are not at a level where we are really sure something is 100% correct.
but I wouldn't mind ppl telling me what to do. Even a junior. I will be very glad if they can tell me what I am doing is wrong... i mean.. if i am doing it wrongly. ^^ By the way, just realized i got one more injury, a torn calf muscle..
damn... hope it heal before grading.
Thanks for the comment Anthony.
Yeah, I have the same feeling, especially when you say you don't mind getting advice from anyone. Which makes me think that others may feel the same, so I just want to help.
Sorry to hear about your injuries man. I'm starting to get a few niggles myself, especially in my wrists. Nothing to bad to stop me from doing kendo so far, but hope it doesn't get worse.
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