Inner spirit.
Wow, gotta say, today's training was great.
I actually got there on time! Anyway, I'll acknowledge that Viet got his men on first today... let the fun begin... especially now that Pei is back.
Training started off tame enough. Just pairing up with a junior and doing kirikaeshi, then some kihon cuts. That was all ok. Then class splits. Juniors sans men, juniors with men, seniors. I was lucky enough to not be picked to go with the juniors. Extra lucky because sensei decided to take the seniors... woot.
Today we did some hiki waza, well ALOT of hiki waza. To start off, we did men followed with taiatari and understand the position of tsuba seriai. We just did it slow at first, one cut at a time => Men cut, taiatari, tsubaseriai. Points to note, need to do good cuts (as always), don't bulldoze over your opponent, the point is to stop after contact. Stay in tsubaseriai for a bit, then step back with zanshin and try to maintain centre.
We then did this followed with a hiki men cut. Point being to still get into a good position to cut at tsubaseriai. This was done slow at first, but then we got quicker. When done quicker, we should still try to maintain the points mentioned above. Did men hiki men, men hiki kote and men hiki dou each in sets of 3.
We then did continuous multiple cuts. First it was just 3 men hiki men, then 3 men hiki kote, then changed to continuously, men hiki men, men hiki kote, men hiki dou followed with a normal men cut with follow through. Did this a few times, then sensei gave us a short break and said, ok, now we'll do 3 sets of it, ie, 9 men hiki X cuts, finishing with a men cut.
...OK, do that again....kotai... and again...
...OK, try to do that in 1 strong kiai....
...OK, again, last one..........kotai...
...OK, just one more time...... kotai
...OK, this is really the last time (hehe, and I knew it was when he said) each person do the set of cuts, then each will do kirikaeshi!
Now, through this all, I didn't feel too bad. I felt the worse in between each set, but as I did the cuts, I didn't really feel tired... I think it was because I was totally focussed on doing the cuts and didn't worry about being tired. Before each set, I'd just take a deep breath and go for it. I really surprised myself on how I was able to do it. Especially on the very last set. I really went all out, now on the first few cuts, I didn't feel like the landed too well, but then something happened that I can't really explain. Its like I went into an autopilot mode, and all the cuts I did felt really good, like they landed well and everything was in place. The feeling was very similar to when I feel like I scored in jigeiko, could it be zanshin? I might post this on the forums. I might get someone to explain it for me as I can't articulate how I feel too well, hopefully someone senior has felt the same way. Also, for the kirikaeshi that followed, I went all out, and pretty much did it at my fast speed! Or at least it felt like it, I didn't slow down due to tiredness (well perhaps the last couple of cuts slowed down a bit), but I was really surprised at how fast I was still able to go. I was against KevW and he asked 'Where did you get all the energy?' I just replied that it was all spirit, hehe. I think that was quite apt. What felt really good about it was that I was still only using my left hand! I was barely cradling the shinai with my right hand, only squeezing to get the tenouchi on the impact, and it felt much better than it has been in the past couple of weeks. Hmm, perhaps I need to be very tired to unleash my inner spirit...
p.s. We had Chris P. train with us today, but he took the juniors sans men, so I didn't get train against him, but this has been a good week cos my two most important former sempai's came to train with us! I always feel good when they come. I wish they'd do it more often.
I also saw something kinda funny (well funny to me) at the end of training. When we were around sensei in seiza, I saw kenji, chris and josh, all in seiza next to each other, and I noticed their the rings on their fingers, hehe. It reminded me of a pic they took at camp, where they all showed off their rings, and frowned... I can't remember who took that but I'll have to chase it up.
I actually got there on time! Anyway, I'll acknowledge that Viet got his men on first today... let the fun begin... especially now that Pei is back.
Training started off tame enough. Just pairing up with a junior and doing kirikaeshi, then some kihon cuts. That was all ok. Then class splits. Juniors sans men, juniors with men, seniors. I was lucky enough to not be picked to go with the juniors. Extra lucky because sensei decided to take the seniors... woot.
Today we did some hiki waza, well ALOT of hiki waza. To start off, we did men followed with taiatari and understand the position of tsuba seriai. We just did it slow at first, one cut at a time => Men cut, taiatari, tsubaseriai. Points to note, need to do good cuts (as always), don't bulldoze over your opponent, the point is to stop after contact. Stay in tsubaseriai for a bit, then step back with zanshin and try to maintain centre.
We then did this followed with a hiki men cut. Point being to still get into a good position to cut at tsubaseriai. This was done slow at first, but then we got quicker. When done quicker, we should still try to maintain the points mentioned above. Did men hiki men, men hiki kote and men hiki dou each in sets of 3.
We then did continuous multiple cuts. First it was just 3 men hiki men, then 3 men hiki kote, then changed to continuously, men hiki men, men hiki kote, men hiki dou followed with a normal men cut with follow through. Did this a few times, then sensei gave us a short break and said, ok, now we'll do 3 sets of it, ie, 9 men hiki X cuts, finishing with a men cut.
...OK, do that again....kotai... and again...
...OK, try to do that in 1 strong kiai....
...OK, again, last one..........kotai...
...OK, just one more time...... kotai
...OK, this is really the last time (hehe, and I knew it was when he said) each person do the set of cuts, then each will do kirikaeshi!
Now, through this all, I didn't feel too bad. I felt the worse in between each set, but as I did the cuts, I didn't really feel tired... I think it was because I was totally focussed on doing the cuts and didn't worry about being tired. Before each set, I'd just take a deep breath and go for it. I really surprised myself on how I was able to do it. Especially on the very last set. I really went all out, now on the first few cuts, I didn't feel like the landed too well, but then something happened that I can't really explain. Its like I went into an autopilot mode, and all the cuts I did felt really good, like they landed well and everything was in place. The feeling was very similar to when I feel like I scored in jigeiko, could it be zanshin? I might post this on the forums. I might get someone to explain it for me as I can't articulate how I feel too well, hopefully someone senior has felt the same way. Also, for the kirikaeshi that followed, I went all out, and pretty much did it at my fast speed! Or at least it felt like it, I didn't slow down due to tiredness (well perhaps the last couple of cuts slowed down a bit), but I was really surprised at how fast I was still able to go. I was against KevW and he asked 'Where did you get all the energy?' I just replied that it was all spirit, hehe. I think that was quite apt. What felt really good about it was that I was still only using my left hand! I was barely cradling the shinai with my right hand, only squeezing to get the tenouchi on the impact, and it felt much better than it has been in the past couple of weeks. Hmm, perhaps I need to be very tired to unleash my inner spirit...
p.s. We had Chris P. train with us today, but he took the juniors sans men, so I didn't get train against him, but this has been a good week cos my two most important former sempai's came to train with us! I always feel good when they come. I wish they'd do it more often.
I also saw something kinda funny (well funny to me) at the end of training. When we were around sensei in seiza, I saw kenji, chris and josh, all in seiza next to each other, and I noticed their the rings on their fingers, hehe. It reminded me of a pic they took at camp, where they all showed off their rings, and frowned... I can't remember who took that but I'll have to chase it up.
posted by Son at 10:11 pm
1 Comments:
Hehe, i felt the same way about the 9x3 hiki waza :D I felt really spirited and I could go all out; if sensei had made us do it another 5 times, I would be up for it! But I can't say the same about kirikaeshi because my arms were so numb I can't even hold the shinai in kamae.
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