Friday training.
Nothing much new or exciting exactly. I was a little disappointed in not being asked to be a motodachi initially when our leading senior picked the people to be motodachi for the rotational training, but I guess it was that I was used to being one now that it was kind of like a small jab at my ego. It didn't really bother me afterwards once we started the waza training because I got to rotate and practice on the other motodachi. We did our usual warmups and dou cuts and what not so nothing spectacularly different. In Jigeiko, I played one of the beginners and one of the people I normally trained with. The beginner was pretty much that, a beginner. They didn't attack much at all and I think they might have bee a little afraid to attack or something.... They did hit the wrong kote on me, and I was a bit miffed at that so I went a little all out, I mean, he's in bogu, and it's actually kind of difficult to hit the wrong kote unless you're actually trying to go for it......... . . .
The other person I played recently went to Melbourne for the Uni Games, and they were very pumped in their playing. Their speed was much better and cuts very sharp. They still had some issues with zanshin and following through on their cuts though since landing the cut without zanshin doesn't mean much at all. I did manage to practice keeping my center though, on both of them.
Today, went I went to catch the train to get into training (it's now cheaper to get offpeak trains than drive due to Petrol, so unless I plan to be out socialising, I will probably train in) I was told that there was a track failure at the next station down the line. I mean, honestly, how can a track fail??? It sounds rather catestrophic but in reality, it's not as bad as that, though I'm still not entirely sure what a track failure is... In any case, I couldn't wait, and so the station person told me there was another train in sixteen minutes at the next stop, which luckily for me is only 1.5km away (my train station is at a Y junction between two lines that merge). I legged it dragging (well, rolling since it has wheels) my bogu to the next station and arrived with four minutes to spare but it was pretty tiring since the last 200m or so is uphillish.
I was working on something on the train, and I got some strange looks at the station and on the train, but eh, don't care really lol. Time is of the essence, I'm fine with people looking at me strangely. XD
Got into training with plenty of time to spare since I caught the train and then we had training. I ended up being the motodachi for our instructor to show dou cuts on again. It's a very common occurance these days. I'm not entirely sure what that means, possibly because we're the same height, or he trusts me to get hit?... Did the usual training stuff, nothing new exactly. Then onto jigeiko.
In jigeiko today, we did the split so two people had shiai practice and then rotated into normal rotational jigeiko while another two new people went into shiai practice. The practice was against the instructor and one of the other high level players. I think I've improved some in that it felt that they didn't dominate me like they used to. I worked still on keeping my center and I even managed to get the instructor to impale himself on my shinai once XD. I need to break his center though because I had three cuts which would have been good had I not impaled myself onto his shinai =/ It was very very tiring to have it first up since then I still had rotational jigeiko afterwards. Gah. I played three people, with the last against our resident Nitto player. He has decided to go back to regular chudan no kamae with single shinai because he needs to train himself again since he's slacked off for a long time. His cuts are still very hard and very strong, and it was a challenging jigeiko. Had a lot of fun though, and I did cop a few hard nasty hits including the one on my right elbow as seen in my Kendo blog picture..... But, it's all part of Kendo.
I went and had a chat with my friend who did Kendo before and is too busy to continue at the moment, and he's studying medicine. He thinks I may have carpel tunnel in regards to my wrist, or a stress fracture on one of my carpel bones on the left wrist. Suggestion of an x-ray was given to me but, I probably won't go get one done since it's a bit expensive and excessive too. I'll just try to rest it a bit and not do kendo related exercises with it until Monday.
So thus ends this weekend's training matters.
Nothing much new or exciting exactly. I was a little disappointed in not being asked to be a motodachi initially when our leading senior picked the people to be motodachi for the rotational training, but I guess it was that I was used to being one now that it was kind of like a small jab at my ego. It didn't really bother me afterwards once we started the waza training because I got to rotate and practice on the other motodachi. We did our usual warmups and dou cuts and what not so nothing spectacularly different. In Jigeiko, I played one of the beginners and one of the people I normally trained with. The beginner was pretty much that, a beginner. They didn't attack much at all and I think they might have bee a little afraid to attack or something.... They did hit the wrong kote on me, and I was a bit miffed at that so I went a little all out, I mean, he's in bogu, and it's actually kind of difficult to hit the wrong kote unless you're actually trying to go for it......... . . .
The other person I played recently went to Melbourne for the Uni Games, and they were very pumped in their playing. Their speed was much better and cuts very sharp. They still had some issues with zanshin and following through on their cuts though since landing the cut without zanshin doesn't mean much at all. I did manage to practice keeping my center though, on both of them.
Today, went I went to catch the train to get into training (it's now cheaper to get offpeak trains than drive due to Petrol, so unless I plan to be out socialising, I will probably train in) I was told that there was a track failure at the next station down the line. I mean, honestly, how can a track fail??? It sounds rather catestrophic but in reality, it's not as bad as that, though I'm still not entirely sure what a track failure is... In any case, I couldn't wait, and so the station person told me there was another train in sixteen minutes at the next stop, which luckily for me is only 1.5km away (my train station is at a Y junction between two lines that merge). I legged it dragging (well, rolling since it has wheels) my bogu to the next station and arrived with four minutes to spare but it was pretty tiring since the last 200m or so is uphillish.
I was working on something on the train, and I got some strange looks at the station and on the train, but eh, don't care really lol. Time is of the essence, I'm fine with people looking at me strangely. XD
Got into training with plenty of time to spare since I caught the train and then we had training. I ended up being the motodachi for our instructor to show dou cuts on again. It's a very common occurance these days. I'm not entirely sure what that means, possibly because we're the same height, or he trusts me to get hit?... Did the usual training stuff, nothing new exactly. Then onto jigeiko.
In jigeiko today, we did the split so two people had shiai practice and then rotated into normal rotational jigeiko while another two new people went into shiai practice. The practice was against the instructor and one of the other high level players. I think I've improved some in that it felt that they didn't dominate me like they used to. I worked still on keeping my center and I even managed to get the instructor to impale himself on my shinai once XD. I need to break his center though because I had three cuts which would have been good had I not impaled myself onto his shinai =/ It was very very tiring to have it first up since then I still had rotational jigeiko afterwards. Gah. I played three people, with the last against our resident Nitto player. He has decided to go back to regular chudan no kamae with single shinai because he needs to train himself again since he's slacked off for a long time. His cuts are still very hard and very strong, and it was a challenging jigeiko. Had a lot of fun though, and I did cop a few hard nasty hits including the one on my right elbow as seen in my Kendo blog picture..... But, it's all part of Kendo.
I went and had a chat with my friend who did Kendo before and is too busy to continue at the moment, and he's studying medicine. He thinks I may have carpel tunnel in regards to my wrist, or a stress fracture on one of my carpel bones on the left wrist. Suggestion of an x-ray was given to me but, I probably won't go get one done since it's a bit expensive and excessive too. I'll just try to rest it a bit and not do kendo related exercises with it until Monday.
So thus ends this weekend's training matters.
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