Its been an odd few days with the holiday weekend etc Walking and intuflow, kata.
Ashihara are closed on public holidays so instead of the usual high intensity Monday night I did a Gkr tournment training class on Sunday night. Haven’t done this style of sparring for a very long time and I’m well out of practice. Just reinforced my dislike of the whole scenario. I got (mildly) told off for following up a scoring technique with half a dozen more. And I’m well happy to take a body shot or two so that I can get in close, but of course in point sparring its the first shot that counts. The only thing I do like about it is the sense of requirement to act, the urgency, which can be missing from the normal dojo sparring we do. Its what you can do under pressure thats important and its something I’d like to take further.
Tonight was teaching night. Kids class did a huge lot of strikes to focus pads plus kata and stances.
Seniors did kata, strength stuff, partner kicking drills, sparring and finished with some conditioning.
“I got (mildly) told off for following up a scoring technique with half a dozen more. ” — GOOD FOR YOU!!!!