Saturday morning
Suwari waza iriminage + Saturday morning= blundering oaf.
Bob Sensei wasn't able to teach this morning, so another one of the yudansha taught. (I've never practiced with him or attended his classes, so I don't know his name... I'm really trying hard with the name thing. O_o)
He started out practice with a quick warm-up, several rolls across the mat, forward and backward. He told us to focus on keeping the unbendable arm throughout the roll and not collapsing it. I had a really hard time with that bit. I tend to roll very slowly when I'm thinking about it Luckily, I'm much less self-conscious about the whole rolling thing. HEH
Shikko, keeping the same foot forward. Sensei told us to move from our center and not rely on the strenght in our legs to move along. He was very graceful, but I don't think I mimicked the moving from the center thing very well. O_o
Suwari waza shomenuchi iriminage
W/Paul. Practicing with Paul is always interesting. He's usually pretty quiet, and will put up with quite a bit of blundering on my part. Usually he ends up guiding me through the technique when I'm nage. After a few times he will correct my entry or my follow-through...etc... The suwari waza part was pretty difficult for me. Afterwards Sensei told us to do the technique standing. I was very tired, so I had low energy for this technique. Paul told me to focus on raising BOTH arms up as nage as I went to slide in behind him. Also, he told me to wait to cut down until I had already pivoted behind him. This seemed to make the tenkan part a lot easier.
Sensei put a big focus on uke trying to come back up after the initial cutdown.
Shomenuchi ikkyo
W/Steve. I've never practiced with him before, so it was fun. He asked if everyone was being nice to me ( If I remember correctly, he was the one who signed me up for my first class... hmm... terrible memory.) Tried really hard to focus on sliding off the line a little bit at a 45 degree angle while blocking the initial strike. Sensei suggested I should mimic a sword strike with a more straight up/down motion while at the same point focusing on my extension before cutting down and grabbing uke's elbow. My partner told me to focus too on keeping the wrist above the elbow and the elbow above the shoulder. Crikey... so much to keep up with.
He also pointed out that the problem I have with my backwards rolls (on a sidenote) is that I try to bring the back leg up instead of throwing it back. It's funny, that's common sense, but it never occurred to me to try it that way. LOL
Finally shomenuchi (insert name of technique I have never done before...heh)
W/Michael. Nage steps off the line and cuts down after blocking the strike and continues the circular motion while sinking down, bring uke's arm down and back up while placing the other hand on his head. Grab the wrist and gently push it away from you, sending uke into a forward roll. Took a couple of weird falls, struggled the entire time... you know, the usual.
I was in a lot of pain, tired..etc.. so I decided not to brave second class just yet.
When I was leaving Sensei said something along the lines of "Scott said you were giving more force with uke... working really hard today." Hmm.. Scott wasn't in class today, and I certainly didn't feel full of energy this morning, but I'll take a compliment. :)
Ahh well, class again in the morning (if I can muster up the energy after closing tonight.
Liz
Bob Sensei wasn't able to teach this morning, so another one of the yudansha taught. (I've never practiced with him or attended his classes, so I don't know his name... I'm really trying hard with the name thing. O_o)
He started out practice with a quick warm-up, several rolls across the mat, forward and backward. He told us to focus on keeping the unbendable arm throughout the roll and not collapsing it. I had a really hard time with that bit. I tend to roll very slowly when I'm thinking about it Luckily, I'm much less self-conscious about the whole rolling thing. HEH
Shikko, keeping the same foot forward. Sensei told us to move from our center and not rely on the strenght in our legs to move along. He was very graceful, but I don't think I mimicked the moving from the center thing very well. O_o
Suwari waza shomenuchi iriminage
W/Paul. Practicing with Paul is always interesting. He's usually pretty quiet, and will put up with quite a bit of blundering on my part. Usually he ends up guiding me through the technique when I'm nage. After a few times he will correct my entry or my follow-through...etc... The suwari waza part was pretty difficult for me. Afterwards Sensei told us to do the technique standing. I was very tired, so I had low energy for this technique. Paul told me to focus on raising BOTH arms up as nage as I went to slide in behind him. Also, he told me to wait to cut down until I had already pivoted behind him. This seemed to make the tenkan part a lot easier.
Sensei put a big focus on uke trying to come back up after the initial cutdown.
Shomenuchi ikkyo
W/Steve. I've never practiced with him before, so it was fun. He asked if everyone was being nice to me ( If I remember correctly, he was the one who signed me up for my first class... hmm... terrible memory.) Tried really hard to focus on sliding off the line a little bit at a 45 degree angle while blocking the initial strike. Sensei suggested I should mimic a sword strike with a more straight up/down motion while at the same point focusing on my extension before cutting down and grabbing uke's elbow. My partner told me to focus too on keeping the wrist above the elbow and the elbow above the shoulder. Crikey... so much to keep up with.
He also pointed out that the problem I have with my backwards rolls (on a sidenote) is that I try to bring the back leg up instead of throwing it back. It's funny, that's common sense, but it never occurred to me to try it that way. LOL
Finally shomenuchi (insert name of technique I have never done before...heh)
W/Michael. Nage steps off the line and cuts down after blocking the strike and continues the circular motion while sinking down, bring uke's arm down and back up while placing the other hand on his head. Grab the wrist and gently push it away from you, sending uke into a forward roll. Took a couple of weird falls, struggled the entire time... you know, the usual.
I was in a lot of pain, tired..etc.. so I decided not to brave second class just yet.
When I was leaving Sensei said something along the lines of "Scott said you were giving more force with uke... working really hard today." Hmm.. Scott wasn't in class today, and I certainly didn't feel full of energy this morning, but I'll take a compliment. :)
Ahh well, class again in the morning (if I can muster up the energy after closing tonight.
Liz
posted by Liz at 4/23/2005 12:53:00 PM
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