Saturday – lagoon walk just an hour
Monday – Physio this afternoon then back to Ashihara, at last. Its been weeks since I could train properly, feel much better. Hard hard class… I’d forgotten! The warmup included chinups – I couldn’t really reach the bars, very funny indeed! Moved onto an incremental partner drill – three strikes to the focus pads, cover and elbow strike then 10 push-ups for the striker, situps for the meat puppet, working all the way down to 1, then change sides. Then the same drill adding in switch double knee strikes and ten kicks, working down to 1 and change sides. Then some work on their basic kata which is ten combinations of moves – mainly variations of knees, kicks and sabaki. Then breaking down the last three of those combinations and working in teams, repeating over and over.
I did better with the sabaki and the sheering stuff this time. Key is to stay close, elbows down, spiral and sink at the same time.
I think Sensei was pleased with me although he slapped me in the face to teach me to keep my guard up…it will probably have the desired effect lol!
Body feels good – I’ve missed this stuff!