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In General
Frozen Dojo Waza (Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005)
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#159
01-08-2005 02:56 AM |
When we got into the dojo Thursday night, it was even colder than the night before. So much so, in fact, that you could see your breath. We were standing in the changeroom with our parkas on and it still felt like we were outside. Blame it on the wind and the really bad insulation we have on the windows. Suffice it to say, Sensei wasn't about to let us train under those conditions, so we took our weapons to the room across the hall and did our jo practice in our street clothes to stay warm.
As we worked on kata, it became readily apparent that:
- working in street clothes, though somewhat constricting in jeans, was rather beneficial to see Sensei's form NOT covered up by a hakama for once
and
- albeit warmer, the room we were in was quite small (even for 5 people --- being 5 people swinging weapons around, after all) and there would be plenty of wall-hitting in the process of adapting to its size
Most exciting to me was Sensei's introduction of freestyle partnered jo practice (the first installment of which, I had missed from the week before) --- which is essentially a slow, two-person Randori with jo in which you improvise your attacks and blocks (the precursor to wailing away at each other quickly back and forth with the jo). It was wonderful to begin to apply our weapons work in a somewhat realistic fashion after having done only kata and structured paired practice up until now. We came to learn that there are stances and hand positions which are not as advantageous as others, as well as it becoming (rather glaringly) obvious that we need to work more on hand changes --- particularly transitioning from different combinations of offensive and defensive hand positions.
We ended the night with Randori as usual --- tanto evasions, this time. My atemi to uke's middle needs to be from a greater distance to be most effective and (surprise, surprise) I need to tenkan more than irimi as well as stay in uke's shikkaku/blind spot and maintain hold of uke longer than usual to lead him further.
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