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MONDAY:
Got to training a bit late on Monday and had to do a separate warmup. Kinda got my own now, its pretty much the same as the normal warm-ups except it doesn’t have the set of 8 exercises. Just do ankles and wrists, knees, hips, upper body, arms, then legs and neck stretches. I then just do the forearm/leg stretches to finish off. Nice and easy.
Marginally lost the race to get my men on first again. Damn, I’m too nice to let others win.
A lot of waza practice last night, with emphasis on being good motadachi. Went through different ways of receiving cuts, especially multiple cuts.
Class then split, with the juniors doing a practice shiai, and everyone else doing jigeiko. Was quite good, had the most senior people being motadachi and everyone else lined up to fight them. Had Jon first up. Somehow, I find it hard to maintain concentration for the whole 3 mins. I’d fight ok for the first minute or so, and then I’d just taper off and get owned after that. Just focussed on getting a good men cut against Jon. I think he let me get a couple in towards the end there, but they felt pretty good. I then fought Pai Mei. Wanted to give a better showing that what I did last Friday where I just got my ass kicked. Again, couldn’t hold my concentration for long. Towards the end, he’d open for me but I failed to cut, showing my lack of concentration. The motadachi then had jigeiko with themselves leaving us to fight ourselves. I fought Nicole and a couple of others whom I have forgotten now. Damn, been too busy to update and I’ve forgotten everything already!
WEDNESDAY
Just made it to training on time, though it was running a bit late. The floors weren’t even swept by the time I got there. Slack arsed juniors.
After the warm-ups, sensei made us do a few more suburi with an emphasis on the ‘snap’ of the cut, with a pause, ie. not just bouncing back up. I think I’ve managed to do this, though lately, I haven’t really thought about it, and I think it may have gotten back to the bouncy way. Hmm, learning kendo is like trying to catch water with your hands, there’s always some spillage.
Menstuke, and I got my men on first! By a long shot too! By the time I was finished, no one else had even starting putting on the men, they were all just tying up their tenuguis. Tsk tsk tsk.
As I was standing around waiting, sensei approached me and asked me about my fluid consumption for the day. I told him that I’d had about 2 liters for the day… he asked, 2 litres of what? I’m like… well… errr, water… sensei: ‘no coffee? Softdrink?’… err, no sensei, I try to avoid those in general, and especially before training.
Not much to say about the training, just a lot of the usual stuff, 3 kiri kaeshi’s (sensei realises that not everyone would survive more than that in the heat). Then a lot of uchikomi style practice. Before each set, he’d name the cuts we’d do, always in sets of 5. He watched me at one point, and noted that I wasn’t cutting fast enough, that I was pausing inbetween cuts. I think this has to do with my feet. I’m not getting them in the right position after I turn around. After that, I made an effort to cut as soon as I turn around, no matter what my feet were like. By the end, I think I was getting my feet in a good enough position to launch for a cut. However, it was still difficult, because some motadachi wouldn’t move to maintain the correct distance so sometimes I was too close or too far. I’d tried to fix my follow through and kinda got it to an ok distance.
Then did a few jigeiko. Fought Natalie, Guest from kenshikan and Alex wong. Bleh, didn’t really have much in it. Not much of a contest with Nat and Alex. Kenshikan guy was ok, seems like he’s done kendo for about a year or so.
Sensei then wanted the juniors to have some shiai practice, so the seniors did kata. I was in the ‘I know more than kata 5’ group, so we learned kata 6 and 7. I’d always thought 6 was difficult from watching it, but after doing it, its not that hard. Obviously, as with all kata, doing it well is another thing, but I managed to get the sequence of movements right. We just barely went through 7 once, so not really enough for me to remember all the steps. That nuki dou cut to kneeling waki gamae combo is kinda tricky. Hopefully I’ll get to practice that again soon, cos its one of the cooler looking ones to do.
Note to self, need to blog this shit earlier so I that I can still remember what happened.
Got to training a bit late on Monday and had to do a separate warmup. Kinda got my own now, its pretty much the same as the normal warm-ups except it doesn’t have the set of 8 exercises. Just do ankles and wrists, knees, hips, upper body, arms, then legs and neck stretches. I then just do the forearm/leg stretches to finish off. Nice and easy.
Marginally lost the race to get my men on first again. Damn, I’m too nice to let others win.
A lot of waza practice last night, with emphasis on being good motadachi. Went through different ways of receiving cuts, especially multiple cuts.
Class then split, with the juniors doing a practice shiai, and everyone else doing jigeiko. Was quite good, had the most senior people being motadachi and everyone else lined up to fight them. Had Jon first up. Somehow, I find it hard to maintain concentration for the whole 3 mins. I’d fight ok for the first minute or so, and then I’d just taper off and get owned after that. Just focussed on getting a good men cut against Jon. I think he let me get a couple in towards the end there, but they felt pretty good. I then fought Pai Mei. Wanted to give a better showing that what I did last Friday where I just got my ass kicked. Again, couldn’t hold my concentration for long. Towards the end, he’d open for me but I failed to cut, showing my lack of concentration. The motadachi then had jigeiko with themselves leaving us to fight ourselves. I fought Nicole and a couple of others whom I have forgotten now. Damn, been too busy to update and I’ve forgotten everything already!
WEDNESDAY
Just made it to training on time, though it was running a bit late. The floors weren’t even swept by the time I got there. Slack arsed juniors.
After the warm-ups, sensei made us do a few more suburi with an emphasis on the ‘snap’ of the cut, with a pause, ie. not just bouncing back up. I think I’ve managed to do this, though lately, I haven’t really thought about it, and I think it may have gotten back to the bouncy way. Hmm, learning kendo is like trying to catch water with your hands, there’s always some spillage.
Menstuke, and I got my men on first! By a long shot too! By the time I was finished, no one else had even starting putting on the men, they were all just tying up their tenuguis. Tsk tsk tsk.
As I was standing around waiting, sensei approached me and asked me about my fluid consumption for the day. I told him that I’d had about 2 liters for the day… he asked, 2 litres of what? I’m like… well… errr, water… sensei: ‘no coffee? Softdrink?’… err, no sensei, I try to avoid those in general, and especially before training.
Not much to say about the training, just a lot of the usual stuff, 3 kiri kaeshi’s (sensei realises that not everyone would survive more than that in the heat). Then a lot of uchikomi style practice. Before each set, he’d name the cuts we’d do, always in sets of 5. He watched me at one point, and noted that I wasn’t cutting fast enough, that I was pausing inbetween cuts. I think this has to do with my feet. I’m not getting them in the right position after I turn around. After that, I made an effort to cut as soon as I turn around, no matter what my feet were like. By the end, I think I was getting my feet in a good enough position to launch for a cut. However, it was still difficult, because some motadachi wouldn’t move to maintain the correct distance so sometimes I was too close or too far. I’d tried to fix my follow through and kinda got it to an ok distance.
Then did a few jigeiko. Fought Natalie, Guest from kenshikan and Alex wong. Bleh, didn’t really have much in it. Not much of a contest with Nat and Alex. Kenshikan guy was ok, seems like he’s done kendo for about a year or so.
Sensei then wanted the juniors to have some shiai practice, so the seniors did kata. I was in the ‘I know more than kata 5’ group, so we learned kata 6 and 7. I’d always thought 6 was difficult from watching it, but after doing it, its not that hard. Obviously, as with all kata, doing it well is another thing, but I managed to get the sequence of movements right. We just barely went through 7 once, so not really enough for me to remember all the steps. That nuki dou cut to kneeling waki gamae combo is kinda tricky. Hopefully I’ll get to practice that again soon, cos its one of the cooler looking ones to do.
Note to self, need to blog this shit earlier so I that I can still remember what happened.
posted by Son at 5:28 pm
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DB Update: In the changerooms after training they were discussing how he cuts the back of your head when you go past but before you've turned around. At the end of training he complained to Sensei about someone skewering him in the throat: turns out he had cut the back of Chinook's head, who retaliated with not-undeliberate tsukis.
Also, I caught him saying to someone that he will do fine this Saturday; 'there isn't anyone who won't be a good challenge for me' or something to that effect.
he cut my bro at the back of the head too, during the junior's shiai
'there isn't anyone who will be a good challenge for me'
was what i meant
you forgot to mention that you were only first because the kendoka who always beat you to putting on the men first wasn't there at the training on Wednesday. How misleading! People might think that you do in fact always have your men on first, tsk tsk!
hmph, You only get first because I let you. Don't you ever notice me waiting for you to fold your thingo?
and yeah, I think we should plant someone in the juniors comp to kick dickballs ass. I'd be happy to parade as Pei's bro or something, and tsuki him twice. It would be worth it to lose that point. Hmm, a good match would be dickballs and chuck norris, he seems to like to hit people from behind too (he did it to me once).
DB is dickballs... DB is the initials of his name...
I guess Alex wasn't a challenge to him, it must have been the blind shimpans... I mean, that match was all over in what? a minute?
i think more like 30 secs
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