Wednesday, July 3, 2013

A Beginner's Point of View 489-490

Day 489:

Today was a nice day, only warm and not hot. I did one full set of Iaido. The rest was lecture because the instructor and another student came back from a trip to a seminar. He commented on the new changes, such as the possibility that in the fourth kata you must tsuki back and a little left instead of center. Also, he commented that many sensei reminded the group that extending your body too far forward or too far back with a bent knee will end up with you standing up too wobbly. That sounds like what I’m doing.

In kendo, we had only a few students. We did several rounds of okuri-ashi, but in increments. We worked up fumi-komi with short arm swings up to horizontal. Right leg and left arm together. This added the right arm over the left arm and then tenouchi. This adds up to a nice tutorial for sashi-men. I needed this lesson.

Day 490:

No class today as I am not well.

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