忍耐 + 掌握人生
Move Forward. Straight & Tall
When I arrived at the door of the dojo last night, Fukuda Sensei emerged from the dojo, yelling 'where is my wife? Where is my wife?'. haha, not sure what happened there, but it was pretty funny to be greeted at the dojo entrance like this. Well, to end the story quick, Fukuda Sensei found his wife in the adjacent park later on.
There were mainly beginners practicing kata when I walked into the dojo. For the first 30mins of the training session, I paired up with Toshio Nishimoto and practiced Kodachi #1, #2 & #3, and Fukuda Sensei would be watching and giving comments and advices in helping us to improve the kata movements.
From then on, Itakura Sensei led the class. The training routine for last night was Bukuto Kihon Kata for 15mins (Kihon #1 - #9), kihon suburi for 20mins and ashi-sabaki for 15mins. The remaining 15mins were for free jigeiko.
Kihon Suburi (20mins)
Similar to last Wednesday night training, we did tonnes of suburi.
Ashi-sabaki (15mins)
We did a lot of suriashi practice, coupled with men, kote-men, and kote / men combo.
While I was doing the suriashi-men exercise, I realised that my left foot was 'flying' again. This problem was fixed after the training in Nittaidai. However, with my recent left ankle injury, my left foot couldn't push off as hard as I could before the injury, so the left leg was 'kicked back' or 'flying' mid-way through the cut.
From then on, I made a conscious effort to make sure that my left foot PUSHED off when doing tobikomi-men, and make sure the left foot stayed in contact with the ground as much as possible.
Jigeiko (Last 15mins)
Last night I had my second jigeiko with Fukuda Sensei since he arrived to Sydney on Monday (the first time was in Pyrmont on Monday). We had a high intensity jigeiko which made it very enjoyable for me to keiko with Sensei.
Fukuda Sensei announced a sanbon-shobu playoff, and he took the first point with a very straight and beautiful tomikomi-men. I equalised later on with a hiki-men (feinting hiki-doh). I noticed that my head wasn't tilting back when I executed the hiki-men, which was very pleasing.
The drum was banged, and the match had to end before we could score the final point.
I also had a few short jigeiko with Chris, Toshio, David Banbury (which I later found out that he got into full bogu for the first time), and Kai.
Zanshin: Debana-Kote
The jigeiko with Kai was illuminating. Kai got quite a few kote-nuki-men on me, and I realised that I was having problem with my follow-through and posture after the debana-kote. What I need to do after debana-kote are:
There were mainly beginners practicing kata when I walked into the dojo. For the first 30mins of the training session, I paired up with Toshio Nishimoto and practiced Kodachi #1, #2 & #3, and Fukuda Sensei would be watching and giving comments and advices in helping us to improve the kata movements.
From then on, Itakura Sensei led the class. The training routine for last night was Bukuto Kihon Kata for 15mins (Kihon #1 - #9), kihon suburi for 20mins and ashi-sabaki for 15mins. The remaining 15mins were for free jigeiko.
Kihon Suburi (20mins)
Similar to last Wednesday night training, we did tonnes of suburi.
- Jogeburi (a few mins)
- Nanameburi (a few mins)
- Squatting suburi x 100
- Lunging suburi x 50
- Kihon-men suburi (a few mins)
- Haya-suburi x 50
Ashi-sabaki (15mins)
We did a lot of suriashi practice, coupled with men, kote-men, and kote / men combo.
While I was doing the suriashi-men exercise, I realised that my left foot was 'flying' again. This problem was fixed after the training in Nittaidai. However, with my recent left ankle injury, my left foot couldn't push off as hard as I could before the injury, so the left leg was 'kicked back' or 'flying' mid-way through the cut.
From then on, I made a conscious effort to make sure that my left foot PUSHED off when doing tobikomi-men, and make sure the left foot stayed in contact with the ground as much as possible.
Jigeiko (Last 15mins)
Last night I had my second jigeiko with Fukuda Sensei since he arrived to Sydney on Monday (the first time was in Pyrmont on Monday). We had a high intensity jigeiko which made it very enjoyable for me to keiko with Sensei.
Fukuda Sensei announced a sanbon-shobu playoff, and he took the first point with a very straight and beautiful tomikomi-men. I equalised later on with a hiki-men (feinting hiki-doh). I noticed that my head wasn't tilting back when I executed the hiki-men, which was very pleasing.
The drum was banged, and the match had to end before we could score the final point.
I also had a few short jigeiko with Chris, Toshio, David Banbury (which I later found out that he got into full bogu for the first time), and Kai.
Zanshin: Debana-Kote
The jigeiko with Kai was illuminating. Kai got quite a few kote-nuki-men on me, and I realised that I was having problem with my follow-through and posture after the debana-kote. What I need to do after debana-kote are:
- Move-in quick - Rush straight into the opponent to close off the distance, and prevent my opponent from being able to land a men cut on me.
- Posture - Keep the body posture tall and straight.
posted by Vivian Yung at
11:20 AM
Name: Vivian Yung
8 Comments:
Hey Viv:
Your kihon training sounds good :)... not sure I like the sound of squatting suburi tho O.o. ouch. I think we do enough suburi at our club -_-
Don't know if I'll see you at training anytime this year or what's left of it ^^. Have a Merry Christmas and happy new year. Will see you at training sometime.
I find that these days I'm very vulnerable to de-kote. Must try and overcome that one...
By
Quoth the raven, at Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:45:00 PM
Hey Sussan,
The squatting suburi is actually quite manageable, though I did get a bit of a sore thigh after last Wednesday training, but not this week.
The squatting suburi is not done in the way where 1 means 10, and 10 means some-other-number. *wink*
I will be training at Willoughby on Saturday, 24/12, and I think SKC will be opened next week as well (but I'll have to check).
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too.
By
Vivian Yung, at Thursday, December 22, 2005 4:59:00 PM
Merry Christmas too you all!
By
Anonymous, at Friday, December 23, 2005 3:14:00 PM
Merry Christmas Vivian!
Just wondering if SKC is training as usual next saturday?Coz I know by then I'd be itching for kendo~ =P Just wondering coz its like, 31st is it?
Anyways, Happy New Year!!
By
Unknown, at Friday, December 23, 2005 11:24:00 PM
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!
The last training of 2005 for SKC is Wed, 28-Dec.
By
Vivian Yung, at Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:55:00 PM
iqwvI want to learn the kodachi as well :S
By
Anonymous, at Friday, December 30, 2005 12:56:00 PM
Hey Eddie,
Kodachi is very interesting. It's a nice way to show that short sword can win over long one if use skillfully.
heh, there should be a naginata vs kodachi kata. That would be really interesting.
By
Vivian Yung, at Friday, December 30, 2005 5:47:00 PM
now that would be interesting!
I think you might need a shield for that hahaha
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Anonymous, at Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:01:00 PM
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