Well, grading went fine. None of those who were grading for 3rd Kyu (six of us in the original batch, plus four more from the 4th Kyu who got bumped) were asked to come up again for 2nd Kyu, which was slightly disappointing but it was ok since we all didn't get the call haha. I felt that my do cuts were once again pretty poor, and some of my cuts weren't very sharp either. Oh well, but I did get what I graded for, so that was good. In terms of results from other people, everyone but one person from our club obtained at least the grade they had been grading for, while a few were bumped up a grade which was excellent to see. There were a few people who didn't get their gradings which is a bit unfortunate I guess.
After the grading and lunch we had a seminar held by Chiba Sensei from Japan, who is an 8th Dan Sensei. He is AWESOME to the extreme. His simple method of teaching and demonstrating was fantastic.
The things I learnt today from the seminar was:
New way of gripping and making the cut
Proper tenuchi and that the 'wringing the towel' method is wrong for adults
Weight distribution in stances
How to improve fumikomi
Better do cut grip
The seminar also taught a lot of waza but a lot of it is beyond me and I have forgotten the names because there was soo much.... I'm not too worried about it because if I take away at least one thing and practice it and learn it properly, then it is well worth it. Much of the advanced waza stuff requires the basic skills/speeds that I quite frankly don't have, so I'm fine to let it float in my subconscious for when I get the required ability later on.
Chiba Sensei's teaching style is very relaxed, to the point and he has a great sense of humor. He is about my height, and though looking at him you wouldn't tell he is immensely strong. His suburi cuts flex the monouchi of the shinai amost 45° which... is insanely strong.... I wish he was our Sensei Hahahaha, no offence to our own instructor who also attended the seminar and learnt about hiki-kote from Chiba Sensei directly infront of everyone else. Although he was teaching in Japanese and Sano Sensei from UNSW was translating, he talked to the audience, and you could understand from his tone and body language and hand guestures also what was good, bad, how to, how not to etc. The actual words were just icing and more detailed explanation.
He is holding another seminar tomorrow at our dojo training, so I will go to that and see what else I can pick up. At the moment though I am dying. My feet hurt (the callus is cracked now) and my hand hurts (the calluses have increased in size lol) and my shoulders ache really really badly from all the cuts we did and the jigeiko we had at the end. Still, I will recoop as best I can tonight and head out for more punishment tomorrow. ^^
After the grading and lunch we had a seminar held by Chiba Sensei from Japan, who is an 8th Dan Sensei. He is AWESOME to the extreme. His simple method of teaching and demonstrating was fantastic.
The things I learnt today from the seminar was:
New way of gripping and making the cut
Proper tenuchi and that the 'wringing the towel' method is wrong for adults
Weight distribution in stances
How to improve fumikomi
Better do cut grip
The seminar also taught a lot of waza but a lot of it is beyond me and I have forgotten the names because there was soo much.... I'm not too worried about it because if I take away at least one thing and practice it and learn it properly, then it is well worth it. Much of the advanced waza stuff requires the basic skills/speeds that I quite frankly don't have, so I'm fine to let it float in my subconscious for when I get the required ability later on.
Chiba Sensei's teaching style is very relaxed, to the point and he has a great sense of humor. He is about my height, and though looking at him you wouldn't tell he is immensely strong. His suburi cuts flex the monouchi of the shinai amost 45° which... is insanely strong.... I wish he was our Sensei Hahahaha, no offence to our own instructor who also attended the seminar and learnt about hiki-kote from Chiba Sensei directly infront of everyone else. Although he was teaching in Japanese and Sano Sensei from UNSW was translating, he talked to the audience, and you could understand from his tone and body language and hand guestures also what was good, bad, how to, how not to etc. The actual words were just icing and more detailed explanation.
He is holding another seminar tomorrow at our dojo training, so I will go to that and see what else I can pick up. At the moment though I am dying. My feet hurt (the callus is cracked now) and my hand hurts (the calluses have increased in size lol) and my shoulders ache really really badly from all the cuts we did and the jigeiko we had at the end. Still, I will recoop as best I can tonight and head out for more punishment tomorrow. ^^
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