17 March 09, Irish Training

Toyonaka Dojo, 7-9pm

Individual Practice

Hokei

• katsumei – no excess effort
• chisei – walk through a few times then practiced each section with emphasis on shifting the center front and back with each defense/counter pair.
• nentai – a couple of runs through with some work on tightening my shoulder position on the first section arm movements.
• nenin – twice through to balance my nentai practice.

Unshin

• work on bakuchu – I took some video to see why my bakuchu isn’t as smooth as I would like. It looks like the problem is with my tuck – it’s too slow. I could always use more jump, but bakuchu is about technique, and mine has gone downhill over the past few months.

Group Practice

Attendance

• yudansha: 4
• rainbow belts: 1
• men: 4
• women: 1

Warm-Up

• Standard joint movements and light stretch

Moving Practice
All movements practiced around the circumference of the court. I wasn’t able to sequence the movements well because everyone kept asking me to do more every time I would give them a short break. I guess that means it was fun, but they’ll all be sore tomorrow…

• light jog
• jog with spins in both directions
• hopping left to right
• hops with 360 spin
• hops with 720 spin
• chudan kamae moving forward and backward
• swinging leg stretches
• maegeri ido
• slow senin nukite
• zenten
• lying to slow koten
• standing to plank position walk-outs
• gedan kamae ido
• maegeri ido from gedan kamae

Basics
After the moving practice, we broke up, and I worked with our newest student on the leg movements for so, in, ka, and gen.

Hokei
For the remainder of the practice, everyone worked individually on hokei.

Jissen
A few rounds of slow sotai. A couple of us realized that we aren’t using unsoku angles to our advantage nearly as well as we should.

I Want Me Lucky Charms

After all that, I went home and toasted St. Patrick with a pint of Guinness and some awesome bangers.