Grayematter

Practice was another beat down for me, but in a good way. We spend the first 20 minutes or so after warm-ups practicing fumikomi moving back and forth across the gym floor almost non-stop. Once again my stamina failed completely by the end of the drills. At the end of it we did 50 hiya-suburi which I was unable to complete as well, but did as much as I could and then a few more so I’ll make progress regardless. The remaining part of practice was spent on kiri-kaeshi of different flavors. I found this drill to be quite useful since we worked on both the receiving and attacking sides. We also went over the finer points of where exactly to strike and how to receive. We ended by doing some precise target practice; men, do, kote and even a light tsuki. Overall it was another great practice and hopefully I’m actually getting better.

Tags: keiko, stamina

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