Icy roof
Woke up at 6am this morning to go to morning kendo training. Left my house at 6:30 and came out into the freezing weather. It was so cold that a sheet of ice had formed on the roof of my car! Damn, thats some chilly air.
Anyway, got to training a bit late, about 7:15. By the time I was ready it was already 7:30 and the waza session was over, and jigeiko had started. There was a junior there that was a bit late too, so I just did a few kirikaeshi with him. Finished that and had 'Pai Mei' wave me over to do jigeiko with him! Woot. Just what I wanted. My toe didn't seem to affect me at all. Its not so painful now, and when I'm concentrating on kendo I don't notice it at all. I managed to get a couple of nice debana cuts against Pai Mei, but then he figured me out, and just did a whole lot of nuki dou cuts on me. Afterwards, his advice was that I was reacting quite well... a little too well, because whenever he seme'ed strongly, I'd react. He picked up the pattern and then just did the dou cuts. Something for me to keep in mind for the shiai tomorrow. I also deduced from his advice to the whole class, that I need to have better seme, and it do it with more conviction. This way, I'm not really reacting to a cut, but I'll be proactive in inducing the cut from my opponent. A bit late to work on these now, but good advice nonetheless. Can't wait to the shiai tomorrow.
Oh yeah, stupid me, I picked up someone elses shinai after training on wednesday! DOH! That was my chokuto shinai that I have been using for the past few months and I have grown quite attached to it. Now I find that when I switch from the chokuto to the doubari shinai, the doubari feels a bit unwieldly. I think this is from the fact that it takes that little more effort to use the chokuto. So now that I'm used to using that, switching to the doubari, I inherently use more effort than I need to, making the shinai seem a bit out of sorts... Hard to explain, ah well. I'll have to use the doubari shinai for tomorrow now.
Anyway, got to training a bit late, about 7:15. By the time I was ready it was already 7:30 and the waza session was over, and jigeiko had started. There was a junior there that was a bit late too, so I just did a few kirikaeshi with him. Finished that and had 'Pai Mei' wave me over to do jigeiko with him! Woot. Just what I wanted. My toe didn't seem to affect me at all. Its not so painful now, and when I'm concentrating on kendo I don't notice it at all. I managed to get a couple of nice debana cuts against Pai Mei, but then he figured me out, and just did a whole lot of nuki dou cuts on me. Afterwards, his advice was that I was reacting quite well... a little too well, because whenever he seme'ed strongly, I'd react. He picked up the pattern and then just did the dou cuts. Something for me to keep in mind for the shiai tomorrow. I also deduced from his advice to the whole class, that I need to have better seme, and it do it with more conviction. This way, I'm not really reacting to a cut, but I'll be proactive in inducing the cut from my opponent. A bit late to work on these now, but good advice nonetheless. Can't wait to the shiai tomorrow.
Oh yeah, stupid me, I picked up someone elses shinai after training on wednesday! DOH! That was my chokuto shinai that I have been using for the past few months and I have grown quite attached to it. Now I find that when I switch from the chokuto to the doubari shinai, the doubari feels a bit unwieldly. I think this is from the fact that it takes that little more effort to use the chokuto. So now that I'm used to using that, switching to the doubari, I inherently use more effort than I need to, making the shinai seem a bit out of sorts... Hard to explain, ah well. I'll have to use the doubari shinai for tomorrow now.
posted by Son at 2:04 pm
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