Bujinkan tonight was nice. It was kihon happo with Jack which is a lot more fun than it is with other people because Jack's kihon happo has really evolved over the years. Some of the moves I barely even recognized from the ones I learnt long ago, while others had become so streamlined. It was fascinating to watch and fun to try. C. and I made good partners for these moves because C. is a big guy, with lots of muscles and is somewhat stiff. Meanwhile, I'm very flexible, short and my shoulders don't lock. So while I was having trouble doing omote gyaku on him cause of his stiffness and strength, he had trouble with the final arm bar one cause he had to get very low and do it perfectly since my shoulder wouldn't lock for the arm bar unless the movement was continuous. Even though I haven't done some of the happo exercises in ages, it surprised me how easily most of them came back. Jack is a lot more focused on keeping movement continuous these days. Even the hand movements flowed from one to another and everything was light light light. I remember when it used to be a lot more bang move bang move. (Completely miscellaneous, but these last few sentences would make a lot more sense in Japanese.)
What surprised me is that apparently the verbal judo women I trained with on Saturday (one of whom is a 4th degree black belt in Kendo) told Jack I was really hard on them, which really amused Jack, but puzzled me cause I wasn't hard on them in the physical sense (that I know of) and had to insist that they scale it down so I wasn't injured. I was hard on them in terms of insisting they do things right and pointing out mistakes so they could learn, but Jack seemed to think I'd injured them in some way. There was a new guy visiting from another state there today and Jack gave him a choice between C. or Jo. for his training partner, then said he'd have paired the guy with me, but I'd hurt him (the new guy). *pout* Meanwhile, Jack wanders by fifteen minutes into training and says he's going to call me 'KKK'. Me: What? Jack: Kendo King Killer *walks away laughing* C: I like it. I'll put it on a t-shirt for you. Me: *glare* It was shortened to Kendo Killer by the end of the class (what is it with people giving me nicknames at Buyu lately?) I think the comment that amused me the most was when Jack was demonstrating the last arm bar of the night, saw the trouble C. was having and called me up to go, "Okay. What if a short, crazy person attacks you?" Me: *rolls eyes, but attacks* T. told me later on that I was getting a reputation for being evil, and that I should be careful. But it's not like I have a say on these things. I'm not much more nastier than anyone else there, and I'm nicer than Jack (all the 'evil' stuff I know comes from him...). Jack just thinks it's hilarious to build up my rep. and laugh at my training partners when I take them down.
What surprised me is that apparently the verbal judo women I trained with on Saturday (one of whom is a 4th degree black belt in Kendo) told Jack I was really hard on them, which really amused Jack, but puzzled me cause I wasn't hard on them in the physical sense (that I know of) and had to insist that they scale it down so I wasn't injured. I was hard on them in terms of insisting they do things right and pointing out mistakes so they could learn, but Jack seemed to think I'd injured them in some way. There was a new guy visiting from another state there today and Jack gave him a choice between C. or Jo. for his training partner, then said he'd have paired the guy with me, but I'd hurt him (the new guy). *pout* Meanwhile, Jack wanders by fifteen minutes into training and says he's going to call me 'KKK'. Me: What? Jack: Kendo King Killer *walks away laughing* C: I like it. I'll put it on a t-shirt for you. Me: *glare* It was shortened to Kendo Killer by the end of the class (what is it with people giving me nicknames at Buyu lately?) I think the comment that amused me the most was when Jack was demonstrating the last arm bar of the night, saw the trouble C. was having and called me up to go, "Okay. What if a short, crazy person attacks you?" Me: *rolls eyes, but attacks* T. told me later on that I was getting a reputation for being evil, and that I should be careful. But it's not like I have a say on these things. I'm not much more nastier than anyone else there, and I'm nicer than Jack (all the 'evil' stuff I know comes from him...). Jack just thinks it's hilarious to build up my rep. and laugh at my training partners when I take them down.
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