Taido, 29.10.

Free. Some combinations, few hokeis.

Taido, 28.10.

Jissen training, since responsible intructor was away, everyone made up something. I started with warm up. First some rounds of sitting slapping, which means pair sits facing each other really close, with legs so that one goes under pair's leg and second over. Then they start slapping to head and sides and punching to belly. Then some suiheigeri pushing, which means that one takes shuiheigeri position with leg exended to pair's belly, who takes hold of it. Then jump closer and with suiheigeri motion pushing other away. Then again etc. Last of my made up warm up things was yakujogeri-hangetsuate combination to four directions, just some coordinative training with little effort.

Stretching.

Then we did such jissen related unsoku exercise where attacker tries to find place to hit defender, by using unsoku, and defender just backs with unsoku and tries to keep good guard and face the attacker all the time. Then same so that defender tries to find place to hit while backing away. Backing away and hitting was harder. Using wide unsoku was important here, small steps make it slower.


Next we used same kind of exercise so that attacker used change of rhytm to attack. Then exercise where we tried finding place to hit, this time by using proper timing. From free unsoku, one was attacker and one defender, defender used slow unsoku with emphasized hand movements and attacker used normal speed and tried to score ippon.

Then reaction stuff with focus mitts. From free unsoku when raising mitt to target, hitting it fast as possible with proper technique.

Next exercise had also attacker and defender, defender was free to use any means to dodge attacker's attack, and attacker used one single technique to attack. Time was running out, so we didn't progress from that exercise any further..

Then it was my time again to teach something. I'm not too good at spontaneously inventing good exercises, those for warm up I had planned before, for that kind of random occasion, have to invent something new for next time.. I, being a lowly green belt, don't have much teaching experience since it's brown belts and up who do the teaching. Luckily, I had just read from kamae (finnish taido magazine), about those 8 moments when it's good idea to attack. I chose staggering. So from free unsoku, uke deliberately staggers or even falls down and then attacker attacks as fast as possible. Few rounds of that and then few more rounds so that one is already on the ground and other tries to pass his legs and hit him. Defender tries to defend by keeping his legs between himself and the attacker and grabbing attacker with his legs. Getting up or attacking were not option in this exercise.

Now I come to think, perhaps I could have progressed from that simple staggering exercise so that defender makes fake stagger and uses it to draw attack and counterattack.

Pretty good training in whole, althought we had five people teaching their own session and with only little of planning.

My english sucks, and I'm too lazy to even try writing bad swedish.

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Taido, 26.10.

Free. Some submission wrestling for warm up and at the end, in between, few hokeis. Seems like I don't remember those -in hokeis quite as well as I thought. :p

Taido, 25.10.

Nenin hokei, first time doing it, easy to remember rigorous to do. We also did some futegi training and handstands and handwalking stuff. I'm not too good in those, I have my back arced far too much.. Also some headsprings and necksprings or whatever they are in english. I suck at them too, and this time I couldn't try them too hard because theres a good chance of straining my almost healed toe in those. It (toe, training was fine) didn't feel good while doing nenin hokei either.

Hmh, I should write swedish summary. Should. :P

Taido, 23.10.

Theme was gorendo. For warm up some combinations then stretching, then we did letter unsokus each six times. Since gorendo is my favourite warm up exercise, memorization of it was easy, but I still learnt few things about my unsoku. In gensoku I should move hands at start of movement, so far I have done it so that I move them at middle of movement. In sosoku and kasoku I move too much forwards. Push ups and stretching at the end.

Taido, 22.10.

Free. 2,5 hours. I thought my toe would be okay by now, it seemed to be yeasterday, but it still got somewhat irritated from training. But I still was able to train pretty well, for example, no problem with futegi. Gorendo for warm up, now it went well and some low unshin. Combinations. Half an hour just senjogeri, my right side did feel bit awkard, but it got better. I concentrated on relaxedness and droping the upper body instantly down, getting the feeling of hentai unpu.. I don't know if it's about my tkd background, but doing it without hands seems to help, then when the range of motion is good adding the hand touching ground makes it more stable. Then more combinations and one round of light jissen.


Fri timme. Gorendo, någon låg unshin kombinations och en halv timme att bara senjogeri, lite jissen.

Jättebra.

Taido, 15.10.

Free. Lousy gorendo for warm up, then 5 x unin, 5x henin and once senin hokei. Kinda low spirit in training..

I have lately concentrated on healing that toe, it's a bit better now, but still not yet fully healed. :(

Taido, 9.10.

Sen and un hokeis. First repetitions of usually problematic parts of hokei, then that hokei wholly. In ashibarai, sweeping leg closer to the ground..

Good workout.

Taido, 8.10.

Free class. For warm up gorendo few times and a little bit of combinations, stretching. Then unin hokei, about five repetitions, now it should be fully memorized. Then same with henin hokei. I can do those women's hokeis better with my injured toe, and it's good to know more hokeis, our club organizes taido camp at the start of next month, topic is hokeis, so it's better to not waste higher level instruction to simple memorization of movements.. And women's hokeis are bit nearer to tkd and karate forms, it's bit different feeling to do them. More small movements and not so physically rigorous.

Fri timme. Unin och henin hokeis.

Taido, 4.10.

Theme of session was stopping into kamae and motionlessness, in the beginning we concentrated on blocking movement of hands, straight, sharp movements, full range of motion, timing. Taking kamae, moving forwards and backwards, use of hip in that movement. In the end taking kamae after manjigeri. No getting up and then descending into kamae, but straight into kamae..

My toe has healed a bit, no ejidachi yet, but cautious ryunen dachi is ok. I broke it three weeks ago. stepped on rolled toes, putting all my weight on big toe, I think I was doing senjogeri. Doctor said that it might be broken, x-ray pictures didn't show clear fracture, there were some sharp looking bone in slightly wrong place or something, that might mean that there is a fracutre. She told me to not do taido for 1 month. Well, I think there is enough punishment in just cautious training.. I just avoid straining my toes. Like doing ejidachi so that if my back leg is injured one, it's not the ball of the foot that touches ground, but instep. It's bit awkard but it has worked.


Tema: stoppa och stanna orörlig på kamae. Använding hands riktigt, ta kamae, manöver framöt och bakåt, kamae efter manjigeri

What / Vad ?

Hi,

I'm a finnish guy, I will be writing most of stuff in english, and swedish summary of every article.. The stuff that I intend to write about will be taido training.. I used to have exercise diary in one finnish discussion forum, but I realized that I used far to much time daily on hanging in the forums. So I stopped such completely. Or perhaps I will be visiting like once a month or week or something. But not more than once a week. I liked forums, but I like more these about 8 hours longer days.. Yep, it was kinda serious addiction, like my all computer related addictions have been. :P

I suck in swedish, and it will probably be kinda self-evident.. But I need to learn it just so much that I can graduate into master of philosophy, we have one mandatory course of swedish. By the way, I'm studying information processing science. Nerd stuff, that is. Not quite interested about it anymore, because I just got rid of last of my computer related hobbies/addictions, so my goal is to get the papers and then think what next.. It shouldn't take too long, with any luck, maybe lesser than year.

Och samma på svenska? Nu jag idas inte. Jag ska skriva det senare. :P