...this was a fun class, lots and lots of practice on katas, kicking drills, bag techniques.
One of the Black Belts did a weapons demonstration. I kind of thought the weapons used looked like they'd been adapted from agricultural hand tools, which would make sense.
We started out with katas, and Sensei had various of the higher-ranked belts doing the instructor work - teaching them to teach. One of our Green Belts got most of the load.
We also had a guy I've been helping who was just promoted to Yellow Belt last week - he's the same rank as me now.
There were also a couple of exercises where we had to mirror the moves we're used to from the other side of the body - specifically the fourteen-point hard blocks. It was wierd, but a good teaching tool. I'll have to practice that more often.
Another new thing was doing the eight-point soft blocks while walking in seison stance. Tricky, but a good idea.
All-in-all, a great class, and I got to learn a bit more of Takeoko Kai Go tonight in the last five minutes of class.
Sayonara,
Dan
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