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Keiko report: January 12, 2019

Attendees: Zendai, Victor, Yuchen, Jacky
Material:
-Warmup
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Shihanbo tsuke maesaide

Happy new years and hope you all had a good holiday!
Today’s Keiko covered maesaide as done with a shihanbo. Another thing we did today was perform our striking on targets (taekwondo paddles). The auditory and physical feedback should prove instructive as to how we are hitting and how we should be hitting.

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Keiko on Nov. 10

The Hart House activities room has been booked for a session on Saturday, Nov. 10 for 9AM-11AM.

Keiko report: October 27, 2018

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen, Victor
Material:
-Warmup
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Saide omote
-Sakushu iai
-Kenbo shin
-Kumiuchi

Today, we went through the first 8 of sakushu iai and all 12 of kenbo shin. These two fundamentals are often covered early in Takeuchi-ryu along with other sets such as the first half of short sword and the basics of unarmed combat. Iai and bo are especially good to learn early as they are conducive to practicing by yourself and drill fundamental posture and good form.

Partial footage of today’s session can be found at the link below.
Further footage of the session can be provided to attendees and instructors upon request.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JeCMZafN3wrikCNL9
If any attendees would like any of the footage taken down, please let me know.

Keiko report: October 13, 2018

Attendees: Zendai, Yuchen
Material:
-Warmup
-Basic strikes
-‎Break falls
-Knee walking
-Basic kenjutsu

Doing techniques and kata individually can help with form and self awareness. To put them into context, however, paired practice and drills are indispensable. To this end, the basic strikes and blocks today were done paired. It might be interesting to see how other basics such as rolls and break falls can be done in a paired manner as well. I suspect there will be challenges in doing kneeling rolls and break falls in pairs, however, since there is little room to maneuver…

Partial footage of today’s session can be found at the link below:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YDuhxmLpdZFFGF8t6
Further footage of the session can be provided to attendees and instructors upon request.
If any attendees would like any of the footage taken down, please let me know.