June 9 2009_Tuesday 7:00

Yokomen Uchi Technques

I thought we should start moving more...but this wasnt exactly what I was expecting to start the class... : )

50 pushups
30 situp backwards

2 rounds of dojo-shikkoho

Hiriki no Yosei-1

Techniques:
Suwariwaza Yokomen Uchi Sankajo Osae-1&2
Yokomen Uchi Shomen Iriminage-1&2

Note:
As we reached to Hiriki no Yosei-1...we were covered by massive sweat in the nicely humid morning. I never like or being good at pushups, 50 is a quite large number for me...I knew it was becoming shallower and shallower towards the end but I made myself going all up to 50, thinking...havent pushed anything further like this in a quite sometime...

I felt I was doing any of the techniques right, especially Shomen Iriminage-1, I was not getting to make the space to come close enough to Uke I was working on today even once. Still, sometimes I was only deep enough to make the throw straight forward from where I was without force.

Again, I totally forgot about keeping my back legs straight and steady throughout the class.
I will try again tomorrow.

June 9 2009_Tuesday 5:45

5:45

Breakfalls Practice:
Forward rolls
Flips

Techniques:
Yonkajo
Sokumen
Hijiate

Katate Mochi Kokyunage

Note:
Class of 2, Stumpy's test training.

I realize that I still move as I imagining where uke to be, instead of where uke is. Those times, I'm just making the movements, and techniques dont happen.

Trying to focus on Keeping Back Leg Straight, straighter than I think its straight...I got a feeling to make Tai no Henko-1 much stronger and stable as I can keep the backlegs straight, yet its hard to keep it all way through the technique and cant feel the strong back leg at all.

I reminded myself everytime when I was in kamae during this class but the next moment I remembered was when I was back in kamae...

I can't help thinking I'm losing my knee forward in motion. My hips are way too high and body is open as I make the turn...so the techniques get very very weak, as I try to make it stable and stronger, my shoulder get tensed...

Luckily, I am not afraid of hitting the mat hard when I'm thrown, there are certain techniques I cant take uke right...which involves height. The ones my hips are supposed to go higher than my hip level, I still dont know how to make it happen with my wimpy flips. Being very short is not helping at all on this one, but there must a way to get over that height.

June 5 2009_Friday 19:00

Test Training

Technique:
Katate Mochi Sokumen Iriminage-1
Ushiro Katate Eri Mochi Ikkajo Osae-1
Ushiro Ryo Kata Mochi Sankajo Osae-1
Suwari Waza Shomen Tsuki Shomen Iriminage-1
Suwari Waza Ryote Mochi Kotegaeshi-1
Shomen Uchi Shihonage
Katate Aya Mochi Nikajo Osae-1
Suwari Waza Ryote Mochi Kokyuho-1

Ryote Mochi Kotegaeshi-1&2
Kokyu Nages (Kata Mochi, Shomen Uchi)

Note:
A class like 2 years ago. It wasn't the same as before but the feeling of how the class used to be came back to me throughout the class. It was fun and exciting and frusctrating at the same time.

Someone shoots out the question to Stumpy, the others all take it into on our own ways, bring up as a series of question...somehow the question becomes one big question and a class becomes one.

Physically, it is very challenging for me to train with those guys as it was before. I had to try harder than I could, there was no time for me to observe what was going on on the side...I felt like as if I was sleeping for the last 2 years. What have I learned what they dont know, there must be something since I was here the whole time when they werent.

Keep looking forward and moving forward...I felt like I was awaken feeling their energy just being in the class. A person can move a person, it can get a huge energy ball when a group get together.

Losing it once we had (the way we used to train) made us realize what we had started missing even we were training together.

The big question is...where do we go from here?