It was 33°C in my room when I got home at 7pm tonight. Very warm. It's still 31°C right now at 8:11pm and I have my fan circulating air around. My watercooled computer system is running at full speed and is keeping my CPU currently at 40°C core temperature, so I'm fairly happy with that. Last summer I was clocking abuot 59-60°C in the middle of the summer temperatures with my full 100% CPU loading (I was testing it) so I guess we can see if the efficiency has changed over time since there is dust and other issues with age.
I woke up early today because I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of my new shinai (as seen on my other blog) as Australia Post indicated it had been passed to the courier at 6:39am. Generally parcel deliveries to our place happen around the early morning, by 10:30am or so. I waited, and waited, and waited. Much disappointement to be had because I had wanted to take it to training today to give it a run through. Lunchtime came, I ate and then headed off to training.
Today, our instructor came along after taking a day off from work because he had to renew his passport. We did a lot of advanced waza today, and he said that this would be the kind of thing that we would do from now on at our Saturday trainings, because if we only ever do basics, we will be good at basics but not push ourselves to get better by trying advanced techniques. So, as part of the training, we did some wrist exercises, some wrist-rotational cuts (don't really know how to describe it actually), a modified dou cut, and tsuki practice. We broke into our bogu lines, and then proceeded to do a lot of cuts. I was a tsuki dummy for our instructor, and by golly, copping a full body push tsuki really is uncomfortable, to the point of choking. I do kind of find it strange why we are learning it now. I kind of understand his philosophy that we need to practice everything otherwise our repetoire of cuts is too limited, but when you can't use a tsuki in IKF competitions until Shodan... it is kind of early for us since we only have 2-3 people who are up to that level, especially with six or so completely new bogu players now.... The cuts weren't that difficult except for dou, since my timing is still terrible. I don't know what will improve it besides just a lot of practice, which I guess is the foundation for everything. Very tiring in the heat and humidity. We did have a break before jigeiko.
I copped quite a lot of hits today in jigeiko. I had our instructor first, and so I tried to play properly and go with my best, which was very very tiring. Then I proceeded to cop a lot of hits on kote, to the point of bruising my hand... I don't know how I really played by the end of it. The trip home was fairly uneventful. I got a seat though, which interestingly no-one wanted. People seem to not want to be sitting in close quarters to others, since there are often large enough gaps for people to sit in, but they might have to touch legs or something with the other person. Me, I don't care really. So I took it LOL. Fell asleep since I was so buggered, but I woke up a few times to have water since I was super dehydrated. Once I got home, I was back to 77kg, most likely water-loss. You kind of know that too when you drink over 1L of water, but you don't pass a lot of it back out..... hmmm.
Well, I had two bits of mail waiting for me. One was my shinai, yay, and another was from the university. A pay slip to be precise. I don't know why exactly they sent it to me because the pay slip was for $0.00, yes, that's right, a total of zero dollars and zero cents. I hadn't claimed any money, I hadn't been paid, but yet they still sent me a pay slip. Go figure.
The shinai had been delivered about 3pm my mother said, so just as training was about to start. Grr. Well, I played with it a little, and I am satisfied with it. I posted much more about it in the other blog. I applied a little oil and rubbed it down, and am looking forward to using it on Friday.
Now I'm pretty weary from the day, though eating my daily fruit intake, I think it wasn't too bad, besides the heat that is. Meh.
I woke up early today because I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of my new shinai (as seen on my other blog) as Australia Post indicated it had been passed to the courier at 6:39am. Generally parcel deliveries to our place happen around the early morning, by 10:30am or so. I waited, and waited, and waited. Much disappointement to be had because I had wanted to take it to training today to give it a run through. Lunchtime came, I ate and then headed off to training.
Today, our instructor came along after taking a day off from work because he had to renew his passport. We did a lot of advanced waza today, and he said that this would be the kind of thing that we would do from now on at our Saturday trainings, because if we only ever do basics, we will be good at basics but not push ourselves to get better by trying advanced techniques. So, as part of the training, we did some wrist exercises, some wrist-rotational cuts (don't really know how to describe it actually), a modified dou cut, and tsuki practice. We broke into our bogu lines, and then proceeded to do a lot of cuts. I was a tsuki dummy for our instructor, and by golly, copping a full body push tsuki really is uncomfortable, to the point of choking. I do kind of find it strange why we are learning it now. I kind of understand his philosophy that we need to practice everything otherwise our repetoire of cuts is too limited, but when you can't use a tsuki in IKF competitions until Shodan... it is kind of early for us since we only have 2-3 people who are up to that level, especially with six or so completely new bogu players now.... The cuts weren't that difficult except for dou, since my timing is still terrible. I don't know what will improve it besides just a lot of practice, which I guess is the foundation for everything. Very tiring in the heat and humidity. We did have a break before jigeiko.
I copped quite a lot of hits today in jigeiko. I had our instructor first, and so I tried to play properly and go with my best, which was very very tiring. Then I proceeded to cop a lot of hits on kote, to the point of bruising my hand... I don't know how I really played by the end of it. The trip home was fairly uneventful. I got a seat though, which interestingly no-one wanted. People seem to not want to be sitting in close quarters to others, since there are often large enough gaps for people to sit in, but they might have to touch legs or something with the other person. Me, I don't care really. So I took it LOL. Fell asleep since I was so buggered, but I woke up a few times to have water since I was super dehydrated. Once I got home, I was back to 77kg, most likely water-loss. You kind of know that too when you drink over 1L of water, but you don't pass a lot of it back out..... hmmm.
Well, I had two bits of mail waiting for me. One was my shinai, yay, and another was from the university. A pay slip to be precise. I don't know why exactly they sent it to me because the pay slip was for $0.00, yes, that's right, a total of zero dollars and zero cents. I hadn't claimed any money, I hadn't been paid, but yet they still sent me a pay slip. Go figure.
The shinai had been delivered about 3pm my mother said, so just as training was about to start. Grr. Well, I played with it a little, and I am satisfied with it. I posted much more about it in the other blog. I applied a little oil and rubbed it down, and am looking forward to using it on Friday.
Now I'm pretty weary from the day, though eating my daily fruit intake, I think it wasn't too bad, besides the heat that is. Meh.
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