Saturday, January 31, 2009

The stick & sword class that didn't make

We didn't get to do stick&sword this morning as I'd intended, though the weather was beautiful, the wrong mix of students was here so we worked on other stuff. Had we done stick&sword, here's what I'd planned to cover. You can study up for next Saturday.
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Kihon for sword-guy - men-kote-do-tsuki. The idea is to trigger off of uke giving you an opening.
Then some repetitions of menuchi...
... then some honteuchi...
and wrap up with the first jodo seiteikata, Tsukizue...
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  1. The Nerd-storian!January 31, 2009 7:35 PM

    Alas, my wretched poverty shames myself and the dojo. Stick and sword stuff was what i was looking forward to the most today.

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