Cop-out post...
No major details tonight. I'm brain dead.... but I'll do my best.
Once again, another fun class.
While stretching out, my friend Klara walked in. I grinned and waved from the mat. Sensei said "Hey, no being friendly in the dojo...didn't I put that in the handbook?" hehe
"What? You want me to be mean?"
"Well yes"
I told him I might as well have gone to work.
Charlie kind of laughed at that and said "but you don't get to throw your boss, do you?"
I wanted to say I don't get to throw Sensei, but I bit my lip
We had to new guys join today and two visitors. One of the other newbies came to class tonight as well. There's a sudden influx of new people. Yay! Since I started we've had 8 people join (that I've seen so far)
We've also seemed to have lost 2 guys that were there when I started.
Sensei started out with a long warmup, ukemi practice and then a katatetori backstretch exercise.
Nage slides in (small slide) bringing uke's arm to the outside, atemi to the face, pivots under uke's arm, turns into uke while taking a small step back and turning the hips into uke while swinging down across the chest. Another Sensei reminder to swing up in a nice arc before extending across uke's chest. Up Up Up!
Let's see... mind fuzzy due to lack of sleep, so I'll just list the techniques we practiced and go from there.
Katatetori kokyunage ala shihonage (ura)
Katatetori shihonage (ura)
Katatetori (insert name of technique I don't know yet)
Nage swings out, atemi, slides in, pivots and cuts down to bring uke in front, breaks hand free to grab uke's wrist and then slides forward pushing uke's shoulder. (like the one-arm tenchinage. whee.. I liked this one )
Shomenuchi ikkyo (omote/ura)
Shomenuchi ikkyo kokyunage thing (heheh) with a nice forward roll out. Weird variation though.
Nage slides in as if to do ikkyo omote, grabbing uke's elbow but then extends uke's arm out to step under, pivot then cut down sinking to the knees-- sending uke in a nice roll.
That was fun. My rolling has improved tremendously (at least for me) I managed to only land on my shoulder once or twice. This wasn't a normal forward throw. The angle requires that uke rolls out across the shoulders. I guess it's a good thing I practiced those little side rolls on my futon at home. heh
Doesn't allow for uke to set-up for the roll either. Some of the more senior students were doing some impressive breakfalls. *looks envious* hehe
Kokyudosa and then bowed out for a break.
When we came back, Sensei asked again "what does Scott usually do?"
"Bokken?" Charlie suggested. We haven't done any bokken practice in a while, so I was happy.
He spent a few minutes talking about the proper way to hold, swing the bokken..etc..
Practiced some shomenuchi cuts, working our way up to a fun eight directional shomenuchi/tsuki exercise.
The pattern was something like
1. Forward cut and tsuki
pivot to back wall
2. Forward cut and tsuki
step to the right
3. cut/tsuki
pivot
4. cut/tsuki
step to corner
5. cut
pivot to back corner
6. cut
step to corner
7. cut
pivot to corner
8. cut
Step back swinging the bokken back to face the forward wall again. Repeat... repeat...repeat...Whee. That was fun, though we had a lot of people on the mat. I stopped a few times for fear of konking someone on the head.
The poor new guys got to stand directly behind Sensei who seemed a tad frustrated they weren't getting the whole step/pivot/slide thing in the correct order.
I really like the bokken kata/exercise stuff. I hope we get to do more of that on Tuesday.
Kokyudosa w/mark.
Sensei came over to critique. Extend, getting uke off balance. Imagine you're trying to choke uke O_o or a more friendly comparison--try to clap because you're doing such a good job... lol I like the non-violent comparisons.
Dusted after class and then me and one of the new guys helped Sensei tag and organize the new gis. I was taping washing instructions on them and Sensei gave me a funny look. "They don't have to face the same direction"
"sorry--- I'm a perfectionist." hehe
Sorry for lack of details tonight. I'm tired and have a relatively early day tomorrow. Sensei worked us hard tonight. Whew!
I'm off to the shower and then bed. Ahh... sleep...
Liz
Once again, another fun class.
While stretching out, my friend Klara walked in. I grinned and waved from the mat. Sensei said "Hey, no being friendly in the dojo...didn't I put that in the handbook?" hehe
"What? You want me to be mean?"
"Well yes"
I told him I might as well have gone to work.
Charlie kind of laughed at that and said "but you don't get to throw your boss, do you?"
I wanted to say I don't get to throw Sensei, but I bit my lip
We had to new guys join today and two visitors. One of the other newbies came to class tonight as well. There's a sudden influx of new people. Yay! Since I started we've had 8 people join (that I've seen so far)
We've also seemed to have lost 2 guys that were there when I started.
Sensei started out with a long warmup, ukemi practice and then a katatetori backstretch exercise.
Nage slides in (small slide) bringing uke's arm to the outside, atemi to the face, pivots under uke's arm, turns into uke while taking a small step back and turning the hips into uke while swinging down across the chest. Another Sensei reminder to swing up in a nice arc before extending across uke's chest. Up Up Up!
Let's see... mind fuzzy due to lack of sleep, so I'll just list the techniques we practiced and go from there.
Katatetori kokyunage ala shihonage (ura)
Katatetori shihonage (ura)
Katatetori (insert name of technique I don't know yet)
Nage swings out, atemi, slides in, pivots and cuts down to bring uke in front, breaks hand free to grab uke's wrist and then slides forward pushing uke's shoulder. (like the one-arm tenchinage. whee.. I liked this one )
Shomenuchi ikkyo (omote/ura)
Shomenuchi ikkyo kokyunage thing (heheh) with a nice forward roll out. Weird variation though.
Nage slides in as if to do ikkyo omote, grabbing uke's elbow but then extends uke's arm out to step under, pivot then cut down sinking to the knees-- sending uke in a nice roll.
That was fun. My rolling has improved tremendously (at least for me) I managed to only land on my shoulder once or twice. This wasn't a normal forward throw. The angle requires that uke rolls out across the shoulders. I guess it's a good thing I practiced those little side rolls on my futon at home. heh
Doesn't allow for uke to set-up for the roll either. Some of the more senior students were doing some impressive breakfalls. *looks envious* hehe
Kokyudosa and then bowed out for a break.
When we came back, Sensei asked again "what does Scott usually do?"
"Bokken?" Charlie suggested. We haven't done any bokken practice in a while, so I was happy.
He spent a few minutes talking about the proper way to hold, swing the bokken..etc..
Practiced some shomenuchi cuts, working our way up to a fun eight directional shomenuchi/tsuki exercise.
The pattern was something like
1. Forward cut and tsuki
pivot to back wall
2. Forward cut and tsuki
step to the right
3. cut/tsuki
pivot
4. cut/tsuki
step to corner
5. cut
pivot to back corner
6. cut
step to corner
7. cut
pivot to corner
8. cut
Step back swinging the bokken back to face the forward wall again. Repeat... repeat...repeat...Whee. That was fun, though we had a lot of people on the mat. I stopped a few times for fear of konking someone on the head.
The poor new guys got to stand directly behind Sensei who seemed a tad frustrated they weren't getting the whole step/pivot/slide thing in the correct order.
I really like the bokken kata/exercise stuff. I hope we get to do more of that on Tuesday.
Kokyudosa w/mark.
Sensei came over to critique. Extend, getting uke off balance. Imagine you're trying to choke uke O_o or a more friendly comparison--try to clap because you're doing such a good job... lol I like the non-violent comparisons.
Dusted after class and then me and one of the new guys helped Sensei tag and organize the new gis. I was taping washing instructions on them and Sensei gave me a funny look. "They don't have to face the same direction"
"sorry--- I'm a perfectionist." hehe
Sorry for lack of details tonight. I'm tired and have a relatively early day tomorrow. Sensei worked us hard tonight. Whew!
I'm off to the shower and then bed. Ahh... sleep...
Liz
posted by Liz at 5/05/2005 11:31:00 PM
2 Comments:
Is the un-named technique kaiten nage?
That's what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure :) I'm still relatively unsure about the techniques-- but I believe it was.
:)
Liz
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