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I've got two bruises on my shins from Bujinkan tonight. I'm icing the larger one with frozen blueberries atm. My hands are covered in fingernail marks which brings me back to the nostaligic days when I owned a cat *L* I never realised how utterly exhausted I am after Bujinkan, but today I stopped off at the store to get something for breakfast and I ended up wandering around like a zombie trying to convince myself I really didn't need to limp even if it hurt to walk.
Training was okay. We're still doing the new art (have finally learnt the name - Shinden Fudo Ryu) which is fun though frustrating. Jack was very specifically ragging on me for being too violent, which doesn't exactly mean that I'm too violent, but more that I use force when I don't need to. I know this intellectually, but when I see an opening to say, put pressure on someone's knee, I tend to take it. What I need to do is take the space around the knee, which I know I'm capable of, I just don't do it. The point of the matter being that I can do all the techniques, but what I really have to do is move like the techniques don't exist. There's something crazy about having to revamp everything I know so that it not only works, but is... gentle for lack of a better word, but there you go. I'll spend some more time thinking about it since mental preparation helps a lot too. We shall see.
Was given a Sensei Jack-ism today. He told me and my partner that we had to be like shower curtains. That is certainly some fighting advice I won't forget *g*
Other than that, we spent about a half hour training to fight with our hands (tied) behind our backs. It's not actually all that hard provided you know how to move, but it looks pretty impressive *L* Everything else was about taking the space, but not using any force.
Training was okay. We're still doing the new art (have finally learnt the name - Shinden Fudo Ryu) which is fun though frustrating. Jack was very specifically ragging on me for being too violent, which doesn't exactly mean that I'm too violent, but more that I use force when I don't need to. I know this intellectually, but when I see an opening to say, put pressure on someone's knee, I tend to take it. What I need to do is take the space around the knee, which I know I'm capable of, I just don't do it. The point of the matter being that I can do all the techniques, but what I really have to do is move like the techniques don't exist. There's something crazy about having to revamp everything I know so that it not only works, but is... gentle for lack of a better word, but there you go. I'll spend some more time thinking about it since mental preparation helps a lot too. We shall see.
Was given a Sensei Jack-ism today. He told me and my partner that we had to be like shower curtains. That is certainly some fighting advice I won't forget *g*
Other than that, we spent about a half hour training to fight with our hands (tied) behind our backs. It's not actually all that hard provided you know how to move, but it looks pretty impressive *L* Everything else was about taking the space, but not using any force.
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