Adios muchachos
Was senor Diablo’s last training with us on Wednesday. Tried to make the most of it since he didn’t really train that often in recent times anyway.
I had to take the warm-ups cos there wasn’t anyone else. Was a small class too, less than 20 to start off with. I kinda got distracted through the warm-ups, and only did 1 set of the second exercise causing some confusion. Also got corrected by Hiro as to the order between the leg/arm stretches and the calf raises/star jumps. I decided to break from the ‘norm’ and do the calf raises/star jumps first, since that’s the way we did it way back when I first started. Don’t know why its changed since then. It was actually not even part of the warm-ups last year, so yeah.
We did the usual kiri kaeshi, kihon and uchikomi sequence, where uchikomi was just done in pairs, not against motodachi. I managed to get David in the rotations. I find that he likes to make you run towards him, actually making the distance between you and him further as you turn around, rather than coming into distance. Any, for my final cut, I did a viet style running jumping men. Was kinda fun. Good workout.
Sensei then chose motodachi for jigeiko. I tried to weasel my way out of it, which I did cos there were plenty of seniors around by that time. I quickly ran to line up to fight David first. Was the first time I ever got to fight him. Was fun. Unfortunately it only lasted 2 minutes. Afterwards, I asked him for advice. He gave me advice on my mental state when I cut, saying that at the moment, I’m still just going for the contact of my shinai on the target. He says that I should want to rip my opponents heart out. I’m sure its just a metaphor for improving my kiai and zanshin. Its kinda funny, cos I’ve commented to others in the past who had less zanshin that myself I guess, that they should want to kill me when fighting me. Maybe that’s the difference between 4th kyu and nidan, it gets more barbaric as you move up the ranks. I lament that I didn’t train regularly when he was, but at least I got to fight him before he left. He will be missed.
I had to take the warm-ups cos there wasn’t anyone else. Was a small class too, less than 20 to start off with. I kinda got distracted through the warm-ups, and only did 1 set of the second exercise causing some confusion. Also got corrected by Hiro as to the order between the leg/arm stretches and the calf raises/star jumps. I decided to break from the ‘norm’ and do the calf raises/star jumps first, since that’s the way we did it way back when I first started. Don’t know why its changed since then. It was actually not even part of the warm-ups last year, so yeah.
We did the usual kiri kaeshi, kihon and uchikomi sequence, where uchikomi was just done in pairs, not against motodachi. I managed to get David in the rotations. I find that he likes to make you run towards him, actually making the distance between you and him further as you turn around, rather than coming into distance. Any, for my final cut, I did a viet style running jumping men. Was kinda fun. Good workout.
Sensei then chose motodachi for jigeiko. I tried to weasel my way out of it, which I did cos there were plenty of seniors around by that time. I quickly ran to line up to fight David first. Was the first time I ever got to fight him. Was fun. Unfortunately it only lasted 2 minutes. Afterwards, I asked him for advice. He gave me advice on my mental state when I cut, saying that at the moment, I’m still just going for the contact of my shinai on the target. He says that I should want to rip my opponents heart out. I’m sure its just a metaphor for improving my kiai and zanshin. Its kinda funny, cos I’ve commented to others in the past who had less zanshin that myself I guess, that they should want to kill me when fighting me. Maybe that’s the difference between 4th kyu and nidan, it gets more barbaric as you move up the ranks. I lament that I didn’t train regularly when he was, but at least I got to fight him before he left. He will be missed.
posted by Son at 11:40 am
1 Comments:
its a 1 min 30 sec jigeiko but i gave you an extra 45 secs so stop complaining! Avi and Russell didn't get to do jigeiko with him...
barbaric? like a mexican football fan? hehe, maybe senor diablo thinks you're a nerd.
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