Kihon – 03/22/2009
Sunday’s weather could not be more perfect. Not surprisingly though only Richard came out to train.
We started out with ukemi and warm up exercises on our own. After that we practiced some muto dori with the points that Jim had discussed last week. Richard wasn’t comfortable with the idea of leaning forward. I don’t know if it was because he’s so much taller than me (6′ 3″ vs 5′ 10″) or something else. Whatever it was he wasn’t into baiting the opponent by leaning forward the way I showed. When he found his sweet spot he was still within range of the kissaki (tip of katana) after straighting his spine upwards. When Jim showed it he was just barely out of range. Perhaps I was showing it incorrectly. After that we worked on some more muto dori but with free attacks and responses. Next, we worked on the last omote gyaku that Jim showed. First it was nice and slow then nice and free. After that was my personal favorite, randori.
がんばってくだし！
