Category Archives: Report

Keiko report: October 5 and 12

October 12, 2019
Attendees: Zendai, Victor, Chin-Ying
-Basic strikes 打拳の基本
-‎Break falls 受身
-Kenbo 剣棒
-Saide ura 斎手裏

October 5, 2019
Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen, Victor, Chin-Ying
-Basic strikes 打拳の基本
-‎Break falls 受身
-Komidare shuui 小乱拾遺
-Kenbo 剣棒
-Saide omote 斎手表

On Oct. 5, we continued with saide omote in preparation for kuchi saide. Then, on Oct. 12, we moved onto saide ura to go over defenses and counters. We are going over these very quickly as we will see all of these sword cuts and defenses as we do more sword sets. The goal for this month is to reach kuchi saide.

Keiko report: September 28

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen, Victor, Chin-Ying
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Komidare shuui
-Kogusoku
-Kenbo
-Saide omote

Today we had a new tryout so we opted for covering a wide range of material briefly to give an overview of what we do. Much of our focus is on technique and principles as opposed to training strength or endurance. We will focus on saide the coming weeks and then do torite, trying to fit further training on oinage type throws in the warmup.

Keiko report: September 21

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen, Victor
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Komidare shuui
-Kogusoku

Today we went over the over-the-shoulder throws again and finished off with some kogusoku. Our plan for the next while will be to alternate between armed and unarmed sets (primarily saide and torite) while continuing to work on the over-the-shoulder throws during the warmup.

Keiko report: September 14

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Komidare shuui

This class, we focused on over-the-shoulder throws and a few of the other kata which were a bit difficult. We will continue to work on throws of this type in this set for another week or two and then move on to saide, torite, and hopefully kogusoku over the months.

Heels over head ukemi in preparation for over-the-shoulder throws.

Keiko report: September 7

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen, Victor
-Basic strikes 打拳の基本
-‎Break falls 受身
-Komidare shuui 小乱拾遺

First keiko of the new term. We continued with komidare shuui, moving onto the over the shoulder throws. They are hard, but are possible for anyone with enough practice.

Over the shoulder throw.

Keiko report: August 24, 31

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen, Victor
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Komidare shuui

Started working on Komidare shuui and covered most of the kata which are not over the shoulder throws. After keiko we looked over some kata footage from Takagi-shihan’s website. It is a great resource for seeing what Takeuchi-ryu has to offer.

Outside trip

Keiko report: August 10, 17

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen, Pavel
-Basic strikes 打拳の基本
-‎Break falls 受身
-Hanbo 半棒
-Bichu Kenbo 備中剣棒
-Komidare shuui 小乱拾遺

These two weeks we have been covering new material. The first week, we covered hanbo (kihon and the 12 kata vs sword, spear, and naginata) and did bichu kenbo the second week. At the end, we had a bit of time left over, so we did a few techniques from komidare shuui for a taste of something different.

Keiko report: July 27, August 3

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Hanbo
-Kenbo Sou

Continued practicing hanbo and quickly reviewed kenbo sou so that we are all familiar with the basics of it in preparation for next week.

Keiko report: July 20

July 20, 2019
Attendees: Zendai
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Hanbo

Practiced hanbo using both notes and Takagi-shihan’s videos as a guide. Should be ready for going over then in full next class.

Keiko report: July 13

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

We covered the rest of saide omote today. It was good to review the spacing and dynamics necessary for the various cuts. We will cover saide ura next week.