endless jigeiko/hang dog
Hmm, despite my best efforts, I still got to training about 5mins late today. I even went to sleep at about 10pm last night!
Used my doubari shinai this morning, and during my warmup, I was getting the ‘click’ somewhat consistently. I even managed to get it on some haysuburi cuts. I was still putting on my bogu whilst Pai Mei was doing his warmup, and he got it on pretty much every cut! Even the hayasuburi cuts!
We didn’t do much waza practice. Just some kihon cuts with an emphasis on getting kikentai no ichi. After that went straight into free jigeiko.
First I fought Kev for what seemed to be a long time. I can’t remember much of the fight, but towards the end, I noticed that my intensity waned. Been trying to work on my seme, and trying to induce cuts from my opponents, or at least reactions. Haven’t been too successful though.
I then fought Mike. From my last few fights with him, I noticed that he goes back a lot against my seme. Not necessarily in a defensive way, but he does go back. This time though, he didn’t always go back. He’d at times react with his own seme. I really liked this. It’s the kinda fighting from the ‘kensen’ that I like, its ‘sussing’ out your opponent and trying to find openings, as opposed to just going for cuts. Anyway, at the end, he mentioned that my kensen was a bit high, which he almost always says after our fights. Hmm, old habits die hard! I really want to fix this.
I also fought Vincci. Her kiai is much stronger now, and a few times I tried to overwhelm her like I did last week, but she stood strong. I continue to be impressed by her kendo. From what I know of her outside kendo, it seems a bit surreal to go against her. A bit hard to explain, but its kinda like trying to beat the crap out of a cute little girl… like those sickeningly cute ones on Japanese manga.
I then fought Rin Po (sp?) from Monash University. He also likes to fight from the kensen. He’s really good. He picked me pretty well. I realised this, so I really focussed on his eyes, and after that I think I did a bit better. Still, his reactions are very quick. He scored a debana kote on me during ippon shobu. I managed to hit is men, but in real life, I guess it wouldn’t have landed because I wouldn’t have lost be right hand first. After wards, he asked me what time we normally finish, and I told him we still had about an hour, and he said 'wow, so much jigeiko!' hehe, yeah. Normally we only get 3 mins each fight, but I noticed that I was going for up to 15 mins each fight. I should make use of that fact and go all out to see how my kendo would fare in a long encho.
I also fought Hiro briefly but Mike called an end to jigeiko.
We then did kata. I was hoping to just do suburi and work on my ‘click’ but Vincci didn’t have a partner and asked me to do it, so yeah, I did kata. Went through 1-3 with her. Um, yeah, I think her biggest weakness is that she holds the bokuto too loosely. It looks as though she’s not in control of it.
Onto rock climbing. Yeah, my brilliant coaching has led to Pei climbing a grade 13 climb… although she fell once during her ascent. Anyway, gotta learn that Teresa Teng song now.
I managed to climb that grade 16 clean. Everyone I know that has climbed it has commented that its no way a 16, more like a 19/20. But yeah, again, I didn’t try anything too hard. Mainly high teens. I was actually quite surprised on how easily I did them. And I must have improved heaps because the holds that I used to be scared of now seem like really good holds. Must be some synergism between kendo and climbing that leads to more finger strength. I did try a 22 but couldn’t do it clean, or finish it. About 80% up, I fell off, and had to wait a long time because a guy next to me was doing another climb that overlapped with mine, so I just hung there waiting for him. Afterwards I noticed some lower back pain. Mental note; don’t hang around too much… just climb.
Used my doubari shinai this morning, and during my warmup, I was getting the ‘click’ somewhat consistently. I even managed to get it on some haysuburi cuts. I was still putting on my bogu whilst Pai Mei was doing his warmup, and he got it on pretty much every cut! Even the hayasuburi cuts!
We didn’t do much waza practice. Just some kihon cuts with an emphasis on getting kikentai no ichi. After that went straight into free jigeiko.
First I fought Kev for what seemed to be a long time. I can’t remember much of the fight, but towards the end, I noticed that my intensity waned. Been trying to work on my seme, and trying to induce cuts from my opponents, or at least reactions. Haven’t been too successful though.
I then fought Mike. From my last few fights with him, I noticed that he goes back a lot against my seme. Not necessarily in a defensive way, but he does go back. This time though, he didn’t always go back. He’d at times react with his own seme. I really liked this. It’s the kinda fighting from the ‘kensen’ that I like, its ‘sussing’ out your opponent and trying to find openings, as opposed to just going for cuts. Anyway, at the end, he mentioned that my kensen was a bit high, which he almost always says after our fights. Hmm, old habits die hard! I really want to fix this.
I also fought Vincci. Her kiai is much stronger now, and a few times I tried to overwhelm her like I did last week, but she stood strong. I continue to be impressed by her kendo. From what I know of her outside kendo, it seems a bit surreal to go against her. A bit hard to explain, but its kinda like trying to beat the crap out of a cute little girl… like those sickeningly cute ones on Japanese manga.
I then fought Rin Po (sp?) from Monash University. He also likes to fight from the kensen. He’s really good. He picked me pretty well. I realised this, so I really focussed on his eyes, and after that I think I did a bit better. Still, his reactions are very quick. He scored a debana kote on me during ippon shobu. I managed to hit is men, but in real life, I guess it wouldn’t have landed because I wouldn’t have lost be right hand first. After wards, he asked me what time we normally finish, and I told him we still had about an hour, and he said 'wow, so much jigeiko!' hehe, yeah. Normally we only get 3 mins each fight, but I noticed that I was going for up to 15 mins each fight. I should make use of that fact and go all out to see how my kendo would fare in a long encho.
I also fought Hiro briefly but Mike called an end to jigeiko.
We then did kata. I was hoping to just do suburi and work on my ‘click’ but Vincci didn’t have a partner and asked me to do it, so yeah, I did kata. Went through 1-3 with her. Um, yeah, I think her biggest weakness is that she holds the bokuto too loosely. It looks as though she’s not in control of it.
Onto rock climbing. Yeah, my brilliant coaching has led to Pei climbing a grade 13 climb… although she fell once during her ascent. Anyway, gotta learn that Teresa Teng song now.
I managed to climb that grade 16 clean. Everyone I know that has climbed it has commented that its no way a 16, more like a 19/20. But yeah, again, I didn’t try anything too hard. Mainly high teens. I was actually quite surprised on how easily I did them. And I must have improved heaps because the holds that I used to be scared of now seem like really good holds. Must be some synergism between kendo and climbing that leads to more finger strength. I did try a 22 but couldn’t do it clean, or finish it. About 80% up, I fell off, and had to wait a long time because a guy next to me was doing another climb that overlapped with mine, so I just hung there waiting for him. Afterwards I noticed some lower back pain. Mental note; don’t hang around too much… just climb.
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