Monday, October 24, 2011 session at the Goan Gymkhana

It had just rained but inside the 'dojo' I was all sweaty as I did some warm up exercises as I waited for the day's two hour session to commence.

Daniel Sempai took over the first hour and since it was only him and I,we got down to business.
It was Kata dori Ikkyo Omote from Suwari waza that set the ball rolling which actually was the first time I practised the technique from Suwari waza having only previously practised it from Tachi waza.What followed was the same technique this time from Tachi waza.

The following techniques covered the first hour(in no particular order):
a)Morote dori Ikkyo(Omote and Ura).
b)Morote dori Nikyo(Omote).
c)Morote dori Yonkyo(Omote and Ura).
d)Morote dori Shiho nage.

Sensei took over the second hour and he took us through the finer details of executing a technique from a Morote dori stance and it was all smooth and continuous when he did it but wait till I tried it out....damn!
Some of the techniques that followed were a refinement of the ones that we had tackled in the first hour:
a)Morote dori Ikkyo(Omote and Ura).
b)Morote dori Kote gaeshi.
c)Morote dori Gokyo.

Sensei explained to us that the opening for Ikkyo,Nikyo,Sankyo,Yonkyo,Gokyo and Rokyo was basically the same and that one had the choice to choose to 'ignore' either hand which meant executing the technique from a Ai Hanmi stance or a Gyaku hanmi stance.I had quite a challenge executing the Gokyo tecxhnique at the end since I ended up fliping Uke's wrist palm down instead of palm up and Sensei stressed that the angle needed to be an acute angle for Uke to feel pain and tap out...I really look forward to practising with Sensei since he makes it real and always keeps one on his toes to simulate a real life attack.

After a sweaty two hours,there's no better way to cool down than gulping two extra cold bottles of Tusker Malt.

Next class:Wednesday,October 26.Weapons class:Bokken and Iaido.