{"id":822,"date":"2015-11-27T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2015\/11\/27\/19\/822\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T00:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:06:01","slug":"wcos-one-on-one-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2015\/11\/27\/19\/822\/","title":{"rendered":"WCoS &#8211; One on One requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One on one review of requirements with Brennan (99% steel) this morning. We each had notes and thoughts for the other. His notes directly related to my techniques were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On battle stance, make certain to keep the hind elbow up.<\/li>\n<li>The draw cuts should be performed without bending the torso, particularly the vertical ones, instead using the legs, shoulders and arms.<\/li>\n<li>Expert blocks (instead of Advanced) include the vertical head blocks as well as two new augmented lower leg blocks (performed by putting the blade tip to the ground &#8211; I have some reservations about these and will have to inquire further).<\/li>\n<li>In the deflections, the 7th and 8th are a jodan flat slap (rather than edge on sweep I had been doing). pointed out a few things for me.<\/li>\n<li>I need to work on my cutting pattern 4 to cement the pattern and be able to teach it to others.<\/li>\n<li>The Tradition is now taught with an included clearing sweep\/cut when rotating to face opponent at the end (which I had been aware of, and he recommended modifying my older technique to add it).<\/li>\n<li>I need to improve Kata Ni to be more crisp and concise.<\/li>\n<li>The opening Akira for Kata San uses two cross steps rather than a shuffle-and-cross-step, and then is followed by simply rotating on the lead (right) foot instead of having to do the stance shift I&#39;ve been doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a good session and there were many more things that we discussed in general. I also got a chance to meet his student Patrick last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One on one review of requirements with Brennan (99% steel) this morning. We each had notes and thoughts for the other. His notes directly related to my techniques were: On battle stance, make certain to keep the hind elbow up. The draw cuts should be performed without bending the torso, particularly the vertical ones, instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,6],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-steel","tag-wcos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}