Thursday, April 8, 2010

A Beginner's Point of View 154-155

Day 154:

No class today since I am working at my job.

Day 155:

Today was a day to work hard. The weather is warming up a lot, so we have to be careful not to dehydrate. We did endless drills of one-step men, one-step kote, and one-step doh. We did this to increase our speed while keeping our accuracy. We also did this to increase our endurance.

Two of the senior students are recent promotions to shodan, so Sensei was taking them off one by one to give them private one-on-one instruction. The three of us who were in a group did an endless rotation as we alternated between sharpening our skills and helping the junior student learn the proper height of men strike. We did that trick where the odd one out held their shinai above the student’s head so their backswing would strike the shinai and show them the right place to stop the backswing. It went well.

We took a break as a group to rest and hydrate about two-thirds of the way through class. The dojo felt hot, but it was just us exercising a lot.

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