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iai - chief issue from session with A. on Wednesday was being early with the sword. I'm not so sure he's on track with the degree of hip rotation he wants to see in me, nor am I sure my hip appreciates it as that's the one that bothers me occasionally. I'll just keep folding in my general posture stuff that I've been incorporating from naginata and ( Read more... ) -
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One of the yonkyu was promoted to sankyu at judo the other night ( Read more... ) -
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iai - Pretty good session last night. I ended up as senior student, as W was trapped at a birthday party. The new kid is back from vacation, and K came back from France, so there was a situation needing lots of basics. I got to work on some advanced stuff, and some basics, and all in all it was a pretty good night for training. I'm feeling like I'm ( Read more... ) -
ninja toes
I finally got a pair of Vibram Fivefingers this week. It wasn't easy, as they are largely on backorder like, everywhere. But they are so comfy and absolutely perfect for outdoor training.
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"gear up"
I was planning on bringing Shannon to the US Naginata Federation seminar on Friday, but the way she's not been practicing and has generally been a whining brat about it, I don't think I want to bother spending $50 on her attendance. Maybe I'll just do it myself ( Read more... ) -
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It's been forever since I've been to a cookout or barbeque, but I will be going to one with the dojo family in a couple of weeks. I need to bring something, but it's not like I have a favorite thing to bring to all barbeques!
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Kodachi-making experiment
So in frustration over the whole ordering weapons thing, and surely there has to be an easier way . . . I built my own kodachi (short sword).
It's not the greatest-just a proof-of-concept and trial run-through with truly unsuitable wood (poplar), but it let me try things out without trashing a good piece of wood.
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iai - light work lately as I've still not been feeling well, and my neck hurt (see Judo) and D's still hurting, and W was out of town . . . so I did a little Hasegawa Eishin ryu at home, just concentrating on getting the hell back while keeping the sword out there. It actually seemed to work a few times. Thanks, B ( Read more... ) -
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iai - D was kind of out of commission last week as his hip has been driving him insane, and it was just I and the new kid for students. So D worked with the new kid a bunch and had me come in as senior example to run through some shohatto with him, and otherwise I worked on my own with some input from D. I concentrated on chuden, because the ( Read more... ) -
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Unofficial diagnosis re: the shoulder is that I've torched the attachment muscles around the point of the collarbone. D did his thing on Tuesday and moved my arm all around with resistance and without, and as the resistance movement hurt but not the without, and I'm not sure when I did it, and it hurt a lot worse than when it separated before, and ( Read more... )
