The wobble head
I actually made it to training on time last night... First time in a while.
Still working on my kamae, making sure that I have my left leg straight and right knee a bit bent.
We started with some ashi sabaki (footwork). Just ayumi ashi and okuri ashi along the width of the dojo. Nothing exciting.
Mentsuke, and I was the first to get up! hehe... Only because a certain other kendoka was not training who usually beats me. But hey, I'll take the wins when they come. I even did a bit of a strut, hehe, but hopefully no one noticed.
Then the usual kirikaeshi, kihon and uchikomi practice. One thing to note while I was doing kiri kaeshi, my motadachi didn't have the correct angle on his shinai while receiving, so I think that he thought my cuts weren't on target because my shinai didn't connect with his too well, so on the second pass, he left his shinai down so that I can cut his men, only to find that I was right on target... hehe, was quite proud of myself actually, and quite surprised at the precision on that set. I can still see it in my mind now, his men kinda just bounced from side to side each time I cut. Now I have a reference in which to compare my kiri kaeshi from now on.
Onto kihon. For the life of me, I can't do a good kihon dou cut. I tried to slow my cut down to get the movements correct but can't seem to get it right. I remember I used to be able to get a decent cut, but I just can't remember how I did it. Very frustrating. Need to do some dou suburi cuts.
Class splits, some hiki waza. A bit different to what we've been doing it, where the person doing the initial men cut also does the hiki cut. Instead, we have one person doing the initial men cut and the other person doing the hiki cut. I quite like this, even though I didn't do it quite well. Kinda reminds me of bouncing metal ball thing some people have on their desks. I couldn't really do it that well on some people because they weren't really bumping into me hard enough, but I tried to adjust. Still fun...
Then jigeiko. Which is a free practice session, techinically not a sparring session, but generally people do spar during jigeiko. Ok, off my high horse now...
First up I have a japanese guy. I hadn't ever sparred with him before, but figured he'd kick my ass. I managed to get what I thought was 1 ippon on him, but mostly he scored on me. One thing I noticed is that I still pause in between cuts. I had a chat to him after wards and he (in his broken english) was saying something about jigeiko not being that important, and that uchikomi and kakari are more important as training methods. He also mentioned something about being able to continually cut, ie constantly attacking. So yeah, so add to my goals 'continually attack during jigeiko without those breaks'. Had two more jigeiko but not much to say cos I didn't really give much. Was just working on my kamae and my seme. Trying to see what would make my opponents go back or attack.
Well thats about it. Looking forward to friday's morning training.
Still working on my kamae, making sure that I have my left leg straight and right knee a bit bent.
We started with some ashi sabaki (footwork). Just ayumi ashi and okuri ashi along the width of the dojo. Nothing exciting.
Mentsuke, and I was the first to get up! hehe... Only because a certain other kendoka was not training who usually beats me. But hey, I'll take the wins when they come. I even did a bit of a strut, hehe, but hopefully no one noticed.
Then the usual kirikaeshi, kihon and uchikomi practice. One thing to note while I was doing kiri kaeshi, my motadachi didn't have the correct angle on his shinai while receiving, so I think that he thought my cuts weren't on target because my shinai didn't connect with his too well, so on the second pass, he left his shinai down so that I can cut his men, only to find that I was right on target... hehe, was quite proud of myself actually, and quite surprised at the precision on that set. I can still see it in my mind now, his men kinda just bounced from side to side each time I cut. Now I have a reference in which to compare my kiri kaeshi from now on.
Onto kihon. For the life of me, I can't do a good kihon dou cut. I tried to slow my cut down to get the movements correct but can't seem to get it right. I remember I used to be able to get a decent cut, but I just can't remember how I did it. Very frustrating. Need to do some dou suburi cuts.
Class splits, some hiki waza. A bit different to what we've been doing it, where the person doing the initial men cut also does the hiki cut. Instead, we have one person doing the initial men cut and the other person doing the hiki cut. I quite like this, even though I didn't do it quite well. Kinda reminds me of bouncing metal ball thing some people have on their desks. I couldn't really do it that well on some people because they weren't really bumping into me hard enough, but I tried to adjust. Still fun...
Then jigeiko. Which is a free practice session, techinically not a sparring session, but generally people do spar during jigeiko. Ok, off my high horse now...
First up I have a japanese guy. I hadn't ever sparred with him before, but figured he'd kick my ass. I managed to get what I thought was 1 ippon on him, but mostly he scored on me. One thing I noticed is that I still pause in between cuts. I had a chat to him after wards and he (in his broken english) was saying something about jigeiko not being that important, and that uchikomi and kakari are more important as training methods. He also mentioned something about being able to continually cut, ie constantly attacking. So yeah, so add to my goals 'continually attack during jigeiko without those breaks'. Had two more jigeiko but not much to say cos I didn't really give much. Was just working on my kamae and my seme. Trying to see what would make my opponents go back or attack.
Well thats about it. Looking forward to friday's morning training.
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