Monday – Ashihara. Basic strikes and blocks. Then a fitness/strength exercise involving stair running, pushups, situps and squats. Then their Kata Kihon San and extended bunkai of the kata. Finished with some sparring, still coming to grips with this. At least my guard was better. Hard work, good class.
Tuesday- Teaching Night
1st Class – big group again, back to 38. Basics for whites and newbies with lots of whacking them with the noodles. Dont we all love it. Combos and openhanded strike practise for coloureds. Sparring to finish.
2nd Class – Had a sort of of elbows theme running. Started with some mixed elbow and straight striking combos, all directions. Then segued into slightly ashihara-like side step, control ,elbow entry stuff. Then added a lock. Then added a knee kick. Then did a reaction drill – drop and spinning elbow strike. Harder than usual strength drills, pushups, situps, leg raises, stretches. Finished with kotikitae.
Quote was something I found in Rory Miller’s book whaich boils down to - your strongest shot at his weakest point when he’s least ready.
Wednesday – gkr Senior class. Warmup with pushups, situps. A long evolving partner drill of strikes, counters and kicks. Could have been good but not alive enough. Kata to finish – Hangetsu with the other four Shodan-ho’s. The kata is feeling good.
Not a hard class at all but still quite shattered.
Thursday – The Twelve Tigers of Kwangtung. lol