Another come-back and a cool website
Finally! My body seems to be more or less in one piece. My throat is a little sore and my foot is still a little stiff towards the end of a training session, but I don't really care any longer. ;)
First newbie iaido. We went over the kihon again (nukitsuke, kiritsuke, o chiburi, noto) and then started learning mae. I seem to have improved my teaching skills - mae looked a lot better yesterday than it did the first time for the previous group of newbies. I take it as proof that my new ideas are actually working and that they are the improvement that I hoped. We summed it all up with some 180° turns in preparation for morotetsuki, which will be the next kata they learn.
The last 5-10 minutes of the newbie session we gather all the iaido and kendo people together and have them stretching together. It's actually quite nice. This whole thing with iaido and kendo newbie session at the same time and place (well, more or less) seems to be working fine. Especially for the girls I think, as we girls always seem to be a minority, this way we all get to know each other and the dressing room isn't as lonely. ;)
After that, there was kendo as usual. Although this time I was finally back again, wohoo! We started out with warm-ups, 100 hayasuburi and kirikaeshi. Then small men and small do, hiki-men and this pain-in-the-ass variant of hiki-men where we did first hiki-men and then regular men without really stopping in between. Now that's something to make you sweat! :D The last 15 minutes or so was of course jigeiko. I only did one because of the whole foot thing. I can tell you that doing jigeiko when only being able to take 2-3 steps at the time is very interesting, but...not really jigeiko.
Also, I found a really cool website yesterday: FunBeat. It's sort of a training community where you can keep a training diary and keep track of how much you are actually training, keep record of your weight and pulse, and all these kind of things. It's mainly in Swedish, but is available in English as well, if you're interested. I'm "Caroline L" on there (tricky, huh?), come say hello if you join.
First newbie iaido. We went over the kihon again (nukitsuke, kiritsuke, o chiburi, noto) and then started learning mae. I seem to have improved my teaching skills - mae looked a lot better yesterday than it did the first time for the previous group of newbies. I take it as proof that my new ideas are actually working and that they are the improvement that I hoped. We summed it all up with some 180° turns in preparation for morotetsuki, which will be the next kata they learn.
The last 5-10 minutes of the newbie session we gather all the iaido and kendo people together and have them stretching together. It's actually quite nice. This whole thing with iaido and kendo newbie session at the same time and place (well, more or less) seems to be working fine. Especially for the girls I think, as we girls always seem to be a minority, this way we all get to know each other and the dressing room isn't as lonely. ;)
After that, there was kendo as usual. Although this time I was finally back again, wohoo! We started out with warm-ups, 100 hayasuburi and kirikaeshi. Then small men and small do, hiki-men and this pain-in-the-ass variant of hiki-men where we did first hiki-men and then regular men without really stopping in between. Now that's something to make you sweat! :D The last 15 minutes or so was of course jigeiko. I only did one because of the whole foot thing. I can tell you that doing jigeiko when only being able to take 2-3 steps at the time is very interesting, but...not really jigeiko.
Also, I found a really cool website yesterday: FunBeat. It's sort of a training community where you can keep a training diary and keep track of how much you are actually training, keep record of your weight and pulse, and all these kind of things. It's mainly in Swedish, but is available in English as well, if you're interested. I'm "Caroline L" on there (tricky, huh?), come say hello if you join.
posted by Caroline at 15:54
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Just a quick "hello" from a fellow iaido student in Seattle, USA. I've just discovered your blog. It's a very nice site and I'll visit it regularly.
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