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In General
No Pain, No Gain Tally/Week's Summary for 03.08.04
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#110
 03-13-2004 07:59 AM |
I'm rehashing this old ritual of mine because:
1. Pain, my old friend, is back again 
2. I've been just too darn busy and tired with work, volunteering and everything else in my hectic life to write after every single class. I would take notes and post a bunch of consecutive entries in a row for the past week, but I just realized that this in theory could unfairly bump off the "Most Recent Entries" list other peoples' entries that are just as, or even more, recent.
3. I figure, now that I'm officially in the triple-digits with my journal entries, I'm sure that Jun would appreciate a little more brevity on my part --- I've no idea how many entries they expected to support with the Journals section...
So here we go ---
Pains 
- Let's put it this way...I can barely move without *something* aching (especially in the neck and shoulders area)
Gains:
- Four days of good practice (including a bokken and jo class)
- Definitely more good ukemi than bad; at least, folks told me it looked really good. With very few exeptions to this of the "oops --- I should have held on with the other hand, but oh heck, I'm in the middle of the fall" kind, it felt great while doing it. Mind you, I had no idea that I'd feel like this afterwards, so maybe it wasn't really as good as I thought )
- I now know to always hold on with the lower hand (regardless of the technique).
Other thoughts/things of note:
It's becoming readily apparent that (particularly doing weapons work this week, but sometimes in general practice as well) that I need to use my hips more as a centre of power. Since last week, I've been making a point of extending, but in the process seem to have largely forgotten about my hips --- which is only proven all the more by my hips being just about the only part of my body that doesn't ache right now.
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