Wednesday night senior gkr training -
Hard basics in long fighting stance, no comment. Then partner work running through some “self defence” stuff. Some of this was good. My lower grade partner was a young athletic lady more comfortable with the tournament scene but she worked hard with good committment. I especially liked some work with big swinging hooks, blocking in the direction of the swing and countering. This evolves nicely into an evade/ absorb/strike movement with the counter effortlessly following the circular path. The lapel grab stuff was very ho hum and we did a little bit of lock work, not well explained or performed.
The main problem is the lack of realism, and the continued focus on technique for gods sake. Sensei will say – “and you can follow this up with a kick to the groin/knee/eye strike/throat strike etc etc but we dont actually properly practise any of those so the whole things is pointless. And I want to see how it all works on a biiig guy, not little Helen. I’m reasonably sure I can defend myself against her lol. Aarrghgh.
Then we did some allover conditioning, so that was good.