Return of the green hakama…
Chris P. came and took the training last night… wearing his infamous ‘green’ hakama. I remember it being more blotchy that it is now where its more of a uniform green, though he swears it was never blotchy… yeah right… I know what I saw…
About 4 sets of kirikaeshi to start. For a few weeks now, I’ve found it hard to slow down for the first few. I seem to have come to a ‘cruise’ speed that’s kinda quickish. I try to slow down for the first couple of sets but it seems I just tend to go fast anyway. Anyway, by the 4th set, I was pretty much going flat out. Chris stops us and says, ‘OK, you should be nice and warmed up now, nice and relaxed, now do it flat out’. Dude, I ‘was’ going flat out. Bah, well time to take it up a notch. I can sense my technique wavering as I went flat out, but I tried to focus on getting my feet right.
We then did some kihon cuts, with an emphasis on having good seme. Chris told us to cut using the momentum of the seme, rather than doing it in two actions; ie. seme-stop-cut. I liked it as it gave me a sense of pressuring the opponent as I was cutting. We did this for men, kote and dou cuts. (quote from Pei on the forums: what is a doh? Hehehe, noob). Then did uchikomi with this feeling of seme. I found that this felt really good, though it came at the expense of whatever footwork I had before when turning around. Seems like its gone down a few notches, cos I seem to have to fix my left foot just before I cut, sort of a mini step. Need to just cut next time without mucking around.
We then worked on hiki cuts, starting from tsubazeriai. First was hiki men, 3 rounds, each round building up speed. The first round was just with 1 step back, second round with a bit more impact with the feet, then third round was a full blown cut. Repeated this for kote and dou cuts. I was struggling with my hiki cuts a few months ago, where my footwork was just all over the place, and I didn’t know how to fix it, but with time I seemed to have just developed it to a point where it felt right. Now I can just do hiki cuts without thinking about it too much. I still lack a good stomp going backwards (which is why I’m jealous of Pei’s hiki men cut). I think I just need to learn how to pick the openings during jigeiko. I seem to get blocked 95% of the time. Also need to remember to go back in jodan position after hiki men cuts. We then practiced doing men-hiki-men, men-hiki-kote, men-hiki-dou, men. Did this for a few rounds, then did the sequence 3 times in a row… twice. I remember doing this a few months back, and it felt much better then than it did last night. I think I was going back too far after the hiki cuts, and it stuffed up my rhythm.
The jigeiko. Quite a few rounds of short jigeiko, with a emphasis on getting that ippon within that time. Fights seemed a bit too quick for me. Can’t remember much from them. Something I realised was that I like to cut from a set position where my left foot is kinda locked and loaded to cut at any point. I think this may be the reason why I’m shit at uchikomi, because I either can’t cut from a less than perfect position, or that I’m not good at getting my foot into position quick enough. At the moment, it seems like my left foot is in the right position about 80% of the time. I should focus on getting this number as close to 100 as possible, so that I can cut at any moment… Hmm, more uchikomi geiko for me.
About 4 sets of kirikaeshi to start. For a few weeks now, I’ve found it hard to slow down for the first few. I seem to have come to a ‘cruise’ speed that’s kinda quickish. I try to slow down for the first couple of sets but it seems I just tend to go fast anyway. Anyway, by the 4th set, I was pretty much going flat out. Chris stops us and says, ‘OK, you should be nice and warmed up now, nice and relaxed, now do it flat out’. Dude, I ‘was’ going flat out. Bah, well time to take it up a notch. I can sense my technique wavering as I went flat out, but I tried to focus on getting my feet right.
We then did some kihon cuts, with an emphasis on having good seme. Chris told us to cut using the momentum of the seme, rather than doing it in two actions; ie. seme-stop-cut. I liked it as it gave me a sense of pressuring the opponent as I was cutting. We did this for men, kote and dou cuts. (quote from Pei on the forums: what is a doh? Hehehe, noob). Then did uchikomi with this feeling of seme. I found that this felt really good, though it came at the expense of whatever footwork I had before when turning around. Seems like its gone down a few notches, cos I seem to have to fix my left foot just before I cut, sort of a mini step. Need to just cut next time without mucking around.
We then worked on hiki cuts, starting from tsubazeriai. First was hiki men, 3 rounds, each round building up speed. The first round was just with 1 step back, second round with a bit more impact with the feet, then third round was a full blown cut. Repeated this for kote and dou cuts. I was struggling with my hiki cuts a few months ago, where my footwork was just all over the place, and I didn’t know how to fix it, but with time I seemed to have just developed it to a point where it felt right. Now I can just do hiki cuts without thinking about it too much. I still lack a good stomp going backwards (which is why I’m jealous of Pei’s hiki men cut). I think I just need to learn how to pick the openings during jigeiko. I seem to get blocked 95% of the time. Also need to remember to go back in jodan position after hiki men cuts. We then practiced doing men-hiki-men, men-hiki-kote, men-hiki-dou, men. Did this for a few rounds, then did the sequence 3 times in a row… twice. I remember doing this a few months back, and it felt much better then than it did last night. I think I was going back too far after the hiki cuts, and it stuffed up my rhythm.
The jigeiko. Quite a few rounds of short jigeiko, with a emphasis on getting that ippon within that time. Fights seemed a bit too quick for me. Can’t remember much from them. Something I realised was that I like to cut from a set position where my left foot is kinda locked and loaded to cut at any point. I think this may be the reason why I’m shit at uchikomi, because I either can’t cut from a less than perfect position, or that I’m not good at getting my foot into position quick enough. At the moment, it seems like my left foot is in the right position about 80% of the time. I should focus on getting this number as close to 100 as possible, so that I can cut at any moment… Hmm, more uchikomi geiko for me.
posted by Son at 3:22 pm
3 Comments:
where on the forum did i say that!!! omg must be ages ago, why're u digging up the past >.<
hiki waza is the only time I felt confident about my footwork; my forward cuts are shit
'sorry, what's a doh?' can be found at:
http://z2.invisionfree.com/UMKC_Forum/index.php?showtopic=246&st=20
tsk tsk tsk... whats a shinai? whats a men? whats a kendo? whats a footwork? such a newb
shudup! stop reading old posts!
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