Lately Dave and I have been doing some randori with padded bokkens and safety goggles. When we're not trying to kill each other we do free flowing defenses from a specific attack. After the tori has tried a few the uke will then change the attack slightly or counter the tori's attack. We strive to get a rhythm of unknown attacks and defenses where we are flowing naturally with each other. Good fun. Once inside we briefly covered the first four kata from shinden fudo ryu for Tim. Dave mentioned with shiden fudo ryu you want to use your right hand for most of the techniques or use only hand if not the right. The point being one hand is always controlling your sword...I think. I have to double check on that. Then we went over koku and some material from the latest seminar. What exactly, I don't remember. We also went over a flowing/throwing technique Dave was shown last time he was in Roanoke. It went like this: Uke comes in with a double lapel grab. The tori raises the uke's elbows/arms up creating a sort of bubble and rotating/disappearing within that space so the uke throws himself more or less. Not an easy thing to "get" having not been there when it was shown. We spent some more time with the fourth kata uryu from shiden fudo ryu since Dave and I both saw the Sean Askew version of it online. Good stuff there. Make sure to crank that wrist. :-)
Gambatte!
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