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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