Author Archives: cmac

July 6, 2019
Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen, Devin, Monica
-Warmup
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Hanbo

A surprise visit from an instructor from the Vancouver school led to training in some new material. We will focus on the new material for the next while in hopes that it will make a seminar in August more smooth.

June 29, 2019
Attendees: Zendai
-Warmup
-Basic motions

Back to basics with the motions.
Some new excercise to train the basics in a way that might benefit taijutsu overall.

1. Random sequences of “step”, “shuffle”, and “turn” motions. (The three basic forward motions that we use in Takeuchi Ryu)
2. Un-timed shuto uke and uraken in pairs.

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen
-Warmup
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Saide omote

Started covering the basic attacks and counters with the sword. Despite being a very basic set (or because it is), this one set contains many different concepts including timing, spacing, alignment, and efficient striking.

Attendees: Zendai
-Warmup
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Sakushu iai
-Saide omote
-Kenbo shin

More review. Trying some of the sword techniques with the opposite hand proved to be interesting.

Attendees: Zendai
-Warmup
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Sakushu iai
-Saide omote

Revisiting the fundamentals to train with the group when students return from summer vacation.

May 4, 2019
Attendees: Zendai
-Warmup
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Sakushu iai
-Saide omote

This day I went over sakushu iai again and revisited saide omote to re-examine my basic sword cuts.

April 27, 2019

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen
-Sakushu iai

We went through all of sakushu iai again. Iai is nice since you can do it by yourself with easily acquired materials (a stick of the right length will do fine in most cases).

April 20, 2019

Attendees: Zendai, Victor
-Sakushu iai

We went through all of sakushu iai this day. Hopefully this allows training even over the summer break.