Class with Hiroko today. Started with some personal combinations with our iato to warm up: left head block, cross step right temple cut, right temple block, cross step left waist cut; then cross step wide right temple cut, right wrist block, cross step thrust, head cut; then shuffle thrust, cross step thrust, right waist cut, left rainbow block, left shooting star. When then took up our shinai and tried the final combination against each other couple times, then moved on to free fighting techniques 1 and 2. We finished with parry (1 attack, 4 attack, and open attack).
Tag: kendo
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Class with Hiroko. Free fighting techniques 1 and 2, the parry – 1 attack, 3 attack, 4 attack, and ending with open attack.
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Class with Hiroko. Started with 100 cuts, then switched to shinai to go over all the one step techniques, 1 – 10.
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Class with Hiroko and Ivan today. We started with 100 continuous cuts, then switched to shinai. I reviewed the Lighting and Defense Cut for Hiroko, and touched on Dragon’s Tail and The Samurai, then we did some 3-attack and open-attack parry.
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Class with Ivan. We warmed up with 100 continuous cuts, then switched to shinai. I introduced four techniques adapted from my Western Circle training to give him some new perspectives: lighting, dragon’s tail, the samurai and defense cut. We finished with some three-attack and open-attack parry.
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Class with Ivan. Standing iai 4a, 4b, and 8. One steps 5 – 8.
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Class with Hiroko. Focused on one step techniques 5 – 10.
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Class with Hiroko and Ivan. Started with 100 continuous cuts, then focused on the one step techniques 1 – 8, working on the details from Master Shaw, and I briefly introduced/reviewed 9 and 10, per Master Shaw’s video notes.
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Class with Hiroko and Ivan. We covered standing iai 1 – 8 and one step techniques 1 – 4. We also discussed a new recording of our current training status, and possibilities for a group trip out to the Virginia dojo, or pooling resources to host an instructor.
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No other students showed, so I worked on my own on cutting form and a few standing iai and one step techniques.
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Class with Ivan. 50 continuous cuts, standing iai 5 and 6, One Step techniques 1 – 6.
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Class with Hiroko. Continuous Cuts (50). Kneeling Iai 1 – 8, Standing Iai 1 – 5.
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Class with Hiroko and Ivan. We started with kihon cuts, pairing head and wrist (men and kote), and temple and waist. We then went through progressively more complicated combinations, based on one step (OS) techniques. First was OS1 with a followup right temple strike; next was left thrust block with right temple, advance and head, advance and left waist cut; last was OS7 with head strike to the rear as opponent attempts to evade, left 180 to kneeling left waist, advance with right thrust. The last combination we took to bunkai with shinai as it was designed for one defender with two attackers.
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Class with Ivan. Standing Iai 1, 2, 3, 4b; One Steps 1 – 4. Focused on the changes as indicated in the video from Master Shaw.
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Class with Hiroko and a possible new student, Tom. I performed a few iai to introduce Tom to the style and then we covered basic kendo and cat stance, the proper way to hold a katana at the ready, and the head and temple cuts and blocks.
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Class with Hiroko and Ivan. Ran through a few standing iai to warm up, then spent our time creating technique sequences, examining flow and patterns.
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Class with Hiroko. Standing Iais 7 and 8, Kneeling Iai 5, One Step techniques 7 and 8, then finished with unlimited parry.
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Class with Hiroko.
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Class with Hiroko. Free fighting techniques 1 and 2, one steps 5 – 8, parry.
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Class with Ivan. One step techniques 1 – 6.
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Class with Hiroko and Ivan. Warmed up with Standing Iai 4a – 6, then worked on One Steps 1 – 7.
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This evening Ivan and I met for training. We were going to video the three of us, but Hiroko was unable to make it. We reviewed all green belt requirements in preparation for the video to send to Master Shaw and Master DeBaun. Afterward, we donned protective gear and sparred, starting with three attack parry, then general parry, then free sparring.
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Class with Ivan and Hiroko.
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Class with Hiroko and Ivan watched due to an issue with his arm. We covered standing iai 1 – 5 with iaito, one step techniques 1 – 6, and shooting star technique. We finished with some three-attack parry, then some free-form parry.
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Class with Ivan. Review kneeling iai 5 and standing iai 1 – 3, then instructed him on one step techniques 5 and 6 and the shooting star technique.