Another icy morning
Went to yesterday's morning training and boy was it cold. Again, the roof of my car had a sheet of ice on it!
Anyway, I'm going to try to make it to all the trainings from now, because the Vic. Kendo Championships (VKC) is coming up, and although I don't think I'll have a chance of winning at all, I still want to be able represent the club well, and maybe even make it into the club's team.
Again I was late. Got there at about 7:15. Pai Mei had the class doing foot work exercises in 1 line and not facing an opponent. From what I gathered, it was seme-cut footwork, where the two steps were coordinated, or something like that. By the time I got my armour on and warmed up a bit, I joined the line, rei-sonkyo, back to kamae, as soon as I got up Pai Mei calls Kamae! sonkyo... DOH! I missed out on all the footwork stuff. Anyway, menstuke and we did more footwork exercises. The aim was to do seme and make sure your feet were ready to cut at all times. I really liked this exercise. A lot of the time during jigeiko, I practice this, only to have someone come in on me with multiple cuts. But yeah, I still don't have a strong seme, so I liked practicing it.
We then did jigeiko, I had the two Kev's; Wu and Houng. Hmm, can't say I remember much of them, but I was mainly trying to practice the footwork again. Well I lost ippon shobu to both.
Pai Mei then had to go, so K. Houng took over. We just did some more footwork exercises. He showed us some stuff he'd learnt in Taiwan, they were variations of the mai, mai, atoh, atoh, migi, migi, hidari, hidari, footwork exercise, but a bit more complex. From what I gathered the point of the whole thing was to have your feet ready at all times, so no matter which way you're going, you're always pointing your feet at your opponent, and you always snap that left foot back into place (or the right foot if you're going left of back). Thanks Kev, I'll probably be practicing those in my lab whenever I can now.
Ooohh, Yvonne, if you're reading this, I just saw a couple of pigeons having sex outside my window. Perhaps you can enlighten me in your next post!
At the end of training, Nicole had made some rum'less balls the night before and gave me one. Thanks Nicole. The ones I've had before were quite solid all the way in, but this one was still kinda gooey inside, hehe, nice surprise, plus I like condensed milk. I used to eat that on toast when I was a kid!
Also, last night, I went rock climbing with Pei. Roxy was supposed to come too but she piked. Anyway, Pei did pretty good for a first timer, much better than what I did my first time. I remember being scared shitless and not being able to let go of the wall. Anyway, I made her climb the easy climbs to get her into it. She did the grade 8 and 9 clean, but struggled on the 10. There weren't many easy-ise climbs for her to do, so I made her some rather difficult ones, which she really struggled on, hehe. I realised then that I'm not really a good teacher because I don't think my advice was very useful. Afterwards I showed her a common move in the bouldering section that would help her, especially with her reach... You have to use your hips, because they don't lie...
Anyway, they'd changed a lot of the climbs since I was there last time and some of the walls looked quite bare. My two favourites were still there though, I doubt they'd ever change those, so that was good. I also did a new grade 17, which didn't seem that hard, more like grade 14-15. I then did a grade 16, which was no way a 16, it was more like 21-22. I don't know who's grading them now, but they're way off.
Anyway, I'm going to try to make it to all the trainings from now, because the Vic. Kendo Championships (VKC) is coming up, and although I don't think I'll have a chance of winning at all, I still want to be able represent the club well, and maybe even make it into the club's team.
Again I was late. Got there at about 7:15. Pai Mei had the class doing foot work exercises in 1 line and not facing an opponent. From what I gathered, it was seme-cut footwork, where the two steps were coordinated, or something like that. By the time I got my armour on and warmed up a bit, I joined the line, rei-sonkyo, back to kamae, as soon as I got up Pai Mei calls Kamae! sonkyo... DOH! I missed out on all the footwork stuff. Anyway, menstuke and we did more footwork exercises. The aim was to do seme and make sure your feet were ready to cut at all times. I really liked this exercise. A lot of the time during jigeiko, I practice this, only to have someone come in on me with multiple cuts. But yeah, I still don't have a strong seme, so I liked practicing it.
We then did jigeiko, I had the two Kev's; Wu and Houng. Hmm, can't say I remember much of them, but I was mainly trying to practice the footwork again. Well I lost ippon shobu to both.
Pai Mei then had to go, so K. Houng took over. We just did some more footwork exercises. He showed us some stuff he'd learnt in Taiwan, they were variations of the mai, mai, atoh, atoh, migi, migi, hidari, hidari, footwork exercise, but a bit more complex. From what I gathered the point of the whole thing was to have your feet ready at all times, so no matter which way you're going, you're always pointing your feet at your opponent, and you always snap that left foot back into place (or the right foot if you're going left of back). Thanks Kev, I'll probably be practicing those in my lab whenever I can now.
Ooohh, Yvonne, if you're reading this, I just saw a couple of pigeons having sex outside my window. Perhaps you can enlighten me in your next post!
At the end of training, Nicole had made some rum'less balls the night before and gave me one. Thanks Nicole. The ones I've had before were quite solid all the way in, but this one was still kinda gooey inside, hehe, nice surprise, plus I like condensed milk. I used to eat that on toast when I was a kid!
Also, last night, I went rock climbing with Pei. Roxy was supposed to come too but she piked. Anyway, Pei did pretty good for a first timer, much better than what I did my first time. I remember being scared shitless and not being able to let go of the wall. Anyway, I made her climb the easy climbs to get her into it. She did the grade 8 and 9 clean, but struggled on the 10. There weren't many easy-ise climbs for her to do, so I made her some rather difficult ones, which she really struggled on, hehe. I realised then that I'm not really a good teacher because I don't think my advice was very useful. Afterwards I showed her a common move in the bouldering section that would help her, especially with her reach... You have to use your hips, because they don't lie...
Anyway, they'd changed a lot of the climbs since I was there last time and some of the walls looked quite bare. My two favourites were still there though, I doubt they'd ever change those, so that was good. I also did a new grade 17, which didn't seem that hard, more like grade 14-15. I then did a grade 16, which was no way a 16, it was more like 21-22. I don't know who's grading them now, but they're way off.
posted by Son at 4:25 pm
1 Comments:
no.....for grade 10, my forearms were so sore I cant move them already! I'll get to level 13 in no time, you'll see ;)
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