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Back in NJ. Happy to avoid the blizzard that is raging in Wisc.
Training tonight was a review of what everyone had learnt over the year which was good for me since I hadn't been in NJ for most of the year. Jack wasn't there, nor was it all that crowded but it was nice to see most of the regulars. Things I will have to show people back in Wisc are as follows:
Kaname and spreading out to take space. This 'technique' involved going to the outside of the punching arm and manuvering it using your right hand/arm. You got your shoulder under their shoulder, and stood at a 45 degree angle from where their feet were. Then, simulatenously, your left arm spread out to take the space in front of their chest and beyond, your right took all the space around their right arm, and your left foot went back into the space bt their legs closest to their right leg. Your body is the pivot point for the kaname here, so your leg isn't just going strait back, but your hips are twisting forward on the left leaving your hips cocked even though your leg is back by the end of the technique. Hard to explain and demonstrate *L*
Another was an odd 'guiding of the thumb' tech where the person punched, you softly caught the punch on the inside, then gently as possible, guided their thumb in its weakest direction, kind of a sharp arc outwards, then a gentle one around. Very different when the other person crosspunches instead. Then you either have to get the angle perfect, or you go for height or near the floor to get them down. Works best when the other person fights back.
A simple technique was going in when the person punched, taking all the space around their chest then walking straight through them on the opposite side from their punching hand. Easy so long as you don't stop. Training partner found it hard to do bc my height made it so easy to just try to man handle my neck around instead, she kept getting distracted by it and stopping.
Another was catching the space around a person's elbow before they could throw their stomach punch. The key to the timing was to get them to commit to the attack, but take the space where the elbow would be before they wound up for the punch. Since that's pretty much a split second window, getting the timing right was a bitch and I managed it maybe once or twice.
I had to teach one, so I just did going under the punching person's arm and catching the shoulder before bringing them down in their weakest direction. Then they showed something Jack had done very similar the week before which was to take not the space around the shoulder, but almost within it. You literally took the space under and around the shoulder blade by rolling up from underneath after going to the same spot I was, then once you very obviously had their balance and space, you could bring them to the ground (very hard to roll out of).
Final technique, was the kaname applied to the sword, which made it into a sort of horizontal spiral. You caught the other sword strike on the middle of your sword, then brought it in a giant, shallow circle around, increasingly controlling it with the tip of your sword since it slides down from the middle while you circle. If you do it right, you don't get hit as you come in, then the second circle brings the sword behind their head and you're done. I swear it makes sense when you see it *L*
In other news, had a dream this morning that I was in Korea, leading some sort of uni club on a trip to this mountain lake. In the dream, I'd watched a flood warning if there was a major storm the water would surge downstream and flood all of us who lived along the lake. In the dream, I told this to one of the young women I was travelling with and we decided to head away from the storm and river to this beachfront area. We went too far though and had to find a way back to our group, but then we got separated when a Christian bus driver gave me a free ride... well, it got complicated.
Training tonight was a review of what everyone had learnt over the year which was good for me since I hadn't been in NJ for most of the year. Jack wasn't there, nor was it all that crowded but it was nice to see most of the regulars. Things I will have to show people back in Wisc are as follows:
Kaname and spreading out to take space. This 'technique' involved going to the outside of the punching arm and manuvering it using your right hand/arm. You got your shoulder under their shoulder, and stood at a 45 degree angle from where their feet were. Then, simulatenously, your left arm spread out to take the space in front of their chest and beyond, your right took all the space around their right arm, and your left foot went back into the space bt their legs closest to their right leg. Your body is the pivot point for the kaname here, so your leg isn't just going strait back, but your hips are twisting forward on the left leaving your hips cocked even though your leg is back by the end of the technique. Hard to explain and demonstrate *L*
Another was an odd 'guiding of the thumb' tech where the person punched, you softly caught the punch on the inside, then gently as possible, guided their thumb in its weakest direction, kind of a sharp arc outwards, then a gentle one around. Very different when the other person crosspunches instead. Then you either have to get the angle perfect, or you go for height or near the floor to get them down. Works best when the other person fights back.
A simple technique was going in when the person punched, taking all the space around their chest then walking straight through them on the opposite side from their punching hand. Easy so long as you don't stop. Training partner found it hard to do bc my height made it so easy to just try to man handle my neck around instead, she kept getting distracted by it and stopping.
Another was catching the space around a person's elbow before they could throw their stomach punch. The key to the timing was to get them to commit to the attack, but take the space where the elbow would be before they wound up for the punch. Since that's pretty much a split second window, getting the timing right was a bitch and I managed it maybe once or twice.
I had to teach one, so I just did going under the punching person's arm and catching the shoulder before bringing them down in their weakest direction. Then they showed something Jack had done very similar the week before which was to take not the space around the shoulder, but almost within it. You literally took the space under and around the shoulder blade by rolling up from underneath after going to the same spot I was, then once you very obviously had their balance and space, you could bring them to the ground (very hard to roll out of).
Final technique, was the kaname applied to the sword, which made it into a sort of horizontal spiral. You caught the other sword strike on the middle of your sword, then brought it in a giant, shallow circle around, increasingly controlling it with the tip of your sword since it slides down from the middle while you circle. If you do it right, you don't get hit as you come in, then the second circle brings the sword behind their head and you're done. I swear it makes sense when you see it *L*
In other news, had a dream this morning that I was in Korea, leading some sort of uni club on a trip to this mountain lake. In the dream, I'd watched a flood warning if there was a major storm the water would surge downstream and flood all of us who lived along the lake. In the dream, I told this to one of the young women I was travelling with and we decided to head away from the storm and river to this beachfront area. We went too far though and had to find a way back to our group, but then we got separated when a Christian bus driver gave me a free ride... well, it got complicated.
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