fellin' good again
Last nights training was great. I haven't felt good about training for a while now, but finally got that 'good' feeling about my kendo again, even managed to land a half decent dou cut.
Training started with seme practice. I really liked it. Really helps with the foot work and makes you feel like you're moving your whole body from your hips. Hard to explain but feels right when you do it. A little embarassing at times though, when I went up against a girl... 3 girls in a row in fact! To practice the seme technique, you have to shove the shinai right into your partners chest... erm, yeah.
Menstuke... For the past 3 weeks now from what I can remember, I have been first to get my men on at each training! hehe... possibly due to the absence of a certain very fast men putter onnerer. I was a bit to hasty last night though, because during the training I had to step out and fix it because my tenugui was coming down a bit too much.
We did the usualy kirikaeshi, kihon in a line of 4 thing. During kirikaeshi, I feel like my cuts are getting a bit smaller than what they were, especially when I'm going flat out. I need to readdress this and maybe just slow it down just a bit to get bigger cuts.
We then did some uchikomi geiko. The whole class just formed one long line along the length of the basketball court. This is considered a small class... I remember a time when a full class wasn't even this big. Anyway, uchikomi geiko, 2x5 cuts, 2x7 cuts, then 2x9 cuts. Good work out. Felt like I had a decent constant attacking spirit but I might try to work on my technique more during uchikomi in the future. I really feel like I have gotten myself into a groove of not quite right technique while trying to improve my 'spirit'.
Onto jigeiko. Must be like mortein to flys cos there was quite a few drop outs at this point. Can't remember too much. Just that the last one was quite enjoyable. Went up against the ex pres and actually scored against him... once. Got a kote nuki men cut. This is my favourite waza. I remember back to when I first started jigeiko all those years ago... and the first time I ever scored against anyone during jigeiko was by this waza... and I hadn't even learnt it yet... and it was against Pai Mei!!! thats enough boasting. But I always like to reflect upon that moment when I go up against someone who's better than me, it lets me know that I can score against anyone.
Training started with seme practice. I really liked it. Really helps with the foot work and makes you feel like you're moving your whole body from your hips. Hard to explain but feels right when you do it. A little embarassing at times though, when I went up against a girl... 3 girls in a row in fact! To practice the seme technique, you have to shove the shinai right into your partners chest... erm, yeah.
Menstuke... For the past 3 weeks now from what I can remember, I have been first to get my men on at each training! hehe... possibly due to the absence of a certain very fast men putter onnerer. I was a bit to hasty last night though, because during the training I had to step out and fix it because my tenugui was coming down a bit too much.
We did the usualy kirikaeshi, kihon in a line of 4 thing. During kirikaeshi, I feel like my cuts are getting a bit smaller than what they were, especially when I'm going flat out. I need to readdress this and maybe just slow it down just a bit to get bigger cuts.
We then did some uchikomi geiko. The whole class just formed one long line along the length of the basketball court. This is considered a small class... I remember a time when a full class wasn't even this big. Anyway, uchikomi geiko, 2x5 cuts, 2x7 cuts, then 2x9 cuts. Good work out. Felt like I had a decent constant attacking spirit but I might try to work on my technique more during uchikomi in the future. I really feel like I have gotten myself into a groove of not quite right technique while trying to improve my 'spirit'.
Onto jigeiko. Must be like mortein to flys cos there was quite a few drop outs at this point. Can't remember too much. Just that the last one was quite enjoyable. Went up against the ex pres and actually scored against him... once. Got a kote nuki men cut. This is my favourite waza. I remember back to when I first started jigeiko all those years ago... and the first time I ever scored against anyone during jigeiko was by this waza... and I hadn't even learnt it yet... and it was against Pai Mei!!! thats enough boasting. But I always like to reflect upon that moment when I go up against someone who's better than me, it lets me know that I can score against anyone.
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