Thursday

Tonight was a good session. The kids were as mad as ever. They created lots of energy which filled the dojo. Training in school halls is always good, there's a bright airy atmosphere to them.

We had a small senior class afterwards. Tonight we worked on some basics and some partner training. We looked at the mechanics of gyakuzuki no tsukkomi (a wado technique): we studied how it can be used to demonstrate various ideas, then we paired up and worked some applications using those ideas. This technique really is classic wado!

The stances appears in our version of Pinan Shodan with a nice soto uke/maegeri/gyakuzuki combination so we expanded on those ideas too.

We've had a few hiccups amongst the seniors recently, it was good to be back on track.