Okay so the weekend was a writeoff – hard work that sumo training…
Monday night – Ashihara. Long half hour warmup. Multiple lunges, three sorts of pushups, leg raises, hopping, squats, back arches, something called “navy seals”, lots of other evil things, followed by static stretching, yoga and dynamic high leg raises. Loved it. My flexibility has really improved and my fitness is a bit better too. Arms letting me down so I’ll really have to get to work with the weight bench.
Then sabaki takedowns of various sorts. This I need to work at – getting the footwork right, getting the grip correctly, staying low and weighted, keeping the elbows close to the body, spiralling. I’m still too upright and far away. But it was great fun. I really liked one where you step around a kick into a takedown - it was the sanchin step. And I was able to give them a new technical term they hadn’t hear of before – meat puppet. lol.
Finished with a little kata, very basic combos really, like the kumites all joined up. Felt so good after training I came home and did some Intuflow.
“Arms letting me down” Try Scott Sonnon’s “Forward Pressure”
Good advice Rick, will have to give it a go.