Keep that back straight
Trained again yesterday without my heel protector. I find that my heel is a little sore, but nothing like what it used to get. We also got a guest from Sweden. Carolina who was Kristina’s sempai.
Did the usual kirikaeshi and kihon to start. First time in a long time that sensei has trained with us in full bogu. His ankle must be much better now. Been trying to work on my posture lately. As I state in my previous post, I’m working towards a posture like Kate. Anyway, during the kihon practice, I managed to pair up with sensei for the men-do practice. Anyway, I was a bit disappointed with myself that he commented on my bad posture since its something I was working on, and hoping that I’d at least be doing it right. He said that I kinda leant forward for the do cut. So yeah, disappointed with myself that I’d lost focus so early in the training. I guess it was good in the sense that it made me refocus on what I want to improve. I made an extra effort to use good posture after that.
We then did uchikomi keiko. Was picked as the last motodachi. Again, tried to maintain my posture during that.
After the motodachi did uchikomi and kakari geiko, we did jigeiko against a motodachi. I fought Kristina and Andrew. I really liked the fight against Andrew. I remember a few months ago he’d commented on my posture. He did directly tell me that my posture was bad, but instead he told me he liked to have his posture, which was more open and upright which allowed him to look ‘down’ at his opponent. I think that’s more a mental thing, where you can go against an opponent that’s taller than you and still ‘look down’ upon them. Too hard for me to explain. Anyway, I got to practice my kote-kaeshi men on him. I was able to pick it a few times, but didn’t execute it properly. My men cuts seem to land too close and not making contact with the correct part of the shinai. I might have to practice this going backwards to get the right distance, though I loathe to cut backwards unless its from tsubazeriai.
We then separated between the motodachi and others for more jigeiko. There was a bit of a cumbersome arrangement where most of the ‘middle’ level kendoka did jigeiko with each other, with 3 at the end, being motodachi for the juniors. I was one of the motodachi to start off with. I tried to give advice where I could.
Did the usual kirikaeshi and kihon to start. First time in a long time that sensei has trained with us in full bogu. His ankle must be much better now. Been trying to work on my posture lately. As I state in my previous post, I’m working towards a posture like Kate. Anyway, during the kihon practice, I managed to pair up with sensei for the men-do practice. Anyway, I was a bit disappointed with myself that he commented on my bad posture since its something I was working on, and hoping that I’d at least be doing it right. He said that I kinda leant forward for the do cut. So yeah, disappointed with myself that I’d lost focus so early in the training. I guess it was good in the sense that it made me refocus on what I want to improve. I made an extra effort to use good posture after that.
We then did uchikomi keiko. Was picked as the last motodachi. Again, tried to maintain my posture during that.
After the motodachi did uchikomi and kakari geiko, we did jigeiko against a motodachi. I fought Kristina and Andrew. I really liked the fight against Andrew. I remember a few months ago he’d commented on my posture. He did directly tell me that my posture was bad, but instead he told me he liked to have his posture, which was more open and upright which allowed him to look ‘down’ at his opponent. I think that’s more a mental thing, where you can go against an opponent that’s taller than you and still ‘look down’ upon them. Too hard for me to explain. Anyway, I got to practice my kote-kaeshi men on him. I was able to pick it a few times, but didn’t execute it properly. My men cuts seem to land too close and not making contact with the correct part of the shinai. I might have to practice this going backwards to get the right distance, though I loathe to cut backwards unless its from tsubazeriai.
We then separated between the motodachi and others for more jigeiko. There was a bit of a cumbersome arrangement where most of the ‘middle’ level kendoka did jigeiko with each other, with 3 at the end, being motodachi for the juniors. I was one of the motodachi to start off with. I tried to give advice where I could.
posted by Son at 4:33 pm
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You sound like you've finished off your blog post in a hurry...or that you're too lazy or you can't think of anything else to write.
Has the old sonny come back to usurp the new sonny?
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