Classical Martial Arts Club (Junpukai)

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

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.

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.