Too tight? You can fit a jumbo jet in that, and you're complaining that its too tight?
When its 30+ degrees, its always worrying if you can make it through the training or not.
We started training with a debrief of the Mumeishi seminar on Saturday where a few members went. As Tom said, a lot of the information is esoteric, so yeah, maybe a bit out of my league to try and comprehend. I think there’s a danger with trying to run before you walk so yeah. Something I did pick up on though, was that the angle on the left wrist should always be the same no matter the cut you attempt. This gives you the greatest reach for all cuts, and also stops you crossing your wrists during a dou cut (which I seem to tend to do, especially when I twist my body).
Then into menstuke. Damn tenugui. Had to re-put it on like 3-4 times cos it kept slipping off. Last time that this happened, I decided to shave my hair… Anyway, as it stands I wasn’t the first to get my men on, nor 2nd, nor 3rd. Bah, I’m getting too sloppy.
Usual training routine, with kirikaeshi (which seemed to flow from me nicely on Monday. Seems like I was back to my fastest pace). Then some kihon with an emphasis on picking the time to cut. The times to cut are: when you opponent has an opening, after you seme into uchima thus creating an opening and just as your opponent does his seme. We did all kihon cuts in sets of 3 in the aforementioned situations. I must have tied my men himo on way too tight, because at this point I was starting to get a headache, and couldn’t concentrate as much as I would have liked to. I probably should have stepped out to fix it, but I carried on, whilst trying in vain to relieve the pain during kotai. Baka…
Then had some uchikomi geiko, where I focussed on maintaining zanshin and continuously attacking. When watching sensei do it, he immediately does a seme step in after he turns around, so yeah, perhaps I don’t have to cut straight away as I turn, but rather, I need to be in an attacking frame of mind that I’m moving in to the cut, rather than just stand there. This was made clearer to me when I saw some others who did pause after turning around in between cuts. So yeah, the uchikomi seemed to flow better when I did this.
Then jigeiko. Just remember that I fought Kristina first up. My head was killing me, but I tried to persevere. The fight kinda felt good in a way, cos I didn’t feel like backing down, but rather, I tried to fight through the pain. Can’t remember much from the fight though. I vaguely remember fighting Sue, Blaine and one of the juniors, I think it was JC.
Probably should get off my high horse during training, but yeah, sometimes I just can’t help it. I tried to correct a few people on their cuts where I noticed that they were right hand dominant during their cuts. I find it hard to not correct people when I feel like I can help them. So yeah, this soup nazi is closing up shop… No more soup for anyone.
However, an interesting twist happened after training, where Kay (a visitor from Adelaide), asked me for advice after training. Hehe, I looked at her stunned, saying, but you’ve done kendo for 5 years! There wasn’t much I think I could help her with because I didn’t really come across her during training anyway.
We started training with a debrief of the Mumeishi seminar on Saturday where a few members went. As Tom said, a lot of the information is esoteric, so yeah, maybe a bit out of my league to try and comprehend. I think there’s a danger with trying to run before you walk so yeah. Something I did pick up on though, was that the angle on the left wrist should always be the same no matter the cut you attempt. This gives you the greatest reach for all cuts, and also stops you crossing your wrists during a dou cut (which I seem to tend to do, especially when I twist my body).
Then into menstuke. Damn tenugui. Had to re-put it on like 3-4 times cos it kept slipping off. Last time that this happened, I decided to shave my hair… Anyway, as it stands I wasn’t the first to get my men on, nor 2nd, nor 3rd. Bah, I’m getting too sloppy.
Usual training routine, with kirikaeshi (which seemed to flow from me nicely on Monday. Seems like I was back to my fastest pace). Then some kihon with an emphasis on picking the time to cut. The times to cut are: when you opponent has an opening, after you seme into uchima thus creating an opening and just as your opponent does his seme. We did all kihon cuts in sets of 3 in the aforementioned situations. I must have tied my men himo on way too tight, because at this point I was starting to get a headache, and couldn’t concentrate as much as I would have liked to. I probably should have stepped out to fix it, but I carried on, whilst trying in vain to relieve the pain during kotai. Baka…
Then had some uchikomi geiko, where I focussed on maintaining zanshin and continuously attacking. When watching sensei do it, he immediately does a seme step in after he turns around, so yeah, perhaps I don’t have to cut straight away as I turn, but rather, I need to be in an attacking frame of mind that I’m moving in to the cut, rather than just stand there. This was made clearer to me when I saw some others who did pause after turning around in between cuts. So yeah, the uchikomi seemed to flow better when I did this.
Then jigeiko. Just remember that I fought Kristina first up. My head was killing me, but I tried to persevere. The fight kinda felt good in a way, cos I didn’t feel like backing down, but rather, I tried to fight through the pain. Can’t remember much from the fight though. I vaguely remember fighting Sue, Blaine and one of the juniors, I think it was JC.
Probably should get off my high horse during training, but yeah, sometimes I just can’t help it. I tried to correct a few people on their cuts where I noticed that they were right hand dominant during their cuts. I find it hard to not correct people when I feel like I can help them. So yeah, this soup nazi is closing up shop… No more soup for anyone.
However, an interesting twist happened after training, where Kay (a visitor from Adelaide), asked me for advice after training. Hehe, I looked at her stunned, saying, but you’ve done kendo for 5 years! There wasn’t much I think I could help her with because I didn’t really come across her during training anyway.
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