Richmond (Me) Class 10/24/2006

I covered the material from the seminar Doug Norman gave last Saturday. Thanks to Doug for giving me the opportunity to share and to everyone in attendance for being there.

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Richmond (Dave) Class 10/23/2006

Dave covered some taijutsu from the last Ohio (L. Molitor) seminar and the last DC (J. Christian & R. Flanagan) seminar. We covered several different approaches to the Shinden Fudo Ryu Musan kata among other things.

Uke: Tsuki to stomach.
Tori: Receive to the inside with gedan uke nagashi. Shift forwad with a fudo ken to the face as if doing chi no kata as you raise the arm to pass underneath it. Rotate 180 degrees as you pass underneath. Drop your weight as you shuto the back of uke's arm.

• When you take the uke down you drop to your front knee and catch the uke's arm against your hip. You can also snake your arm around like ganseki nage to help restrain the uke.
  


• When you move underneath the arm continue to spin and switch hands so you're facing the same direction you started but you're holding the uke's wrist with the other hand. Use the uke's wrist to pull him off balance. You can use your rear foot to aid in this.
  


• Capture the arm like ganseki nage as you shift forward after receiving the tsuki. With the other foot step forward to the inside of the uke's space and lock the uke's arm out with muso dori. With the rear foot kick the uke's leg that is in front of you as you step through for ganseki oshi.
  


• Same as above except the uke begins to take ukemi and you prevent that by moving further to the side laying the uke out flat.
  


• We also worked on locking the spine up and taking the balance by placing one hand on the shoulder and moving the uke in various directions (mostly downward) to remove all "play" in the spine.
  


• We also worked on taking the balance from kumiuch by moving the uke's balance around a small area searching for a breaking point.
  

Richmond (Dave @ Doug's) Class 10/19/2006

Dave continued with the sword material. The focus here was koto ryu sword which had a lot of iaijutsu. I believe this was everything.

1. From a kneeling position (left knee down) leap up and draw with dogiri switching your kamae. Keep torso straight and cut before your feet land.
   


2. 
   Uke and tori are walking towards each other on the right side. At the right distance draw to the neck, move into hasso no kamae and cut down to the closest knee. The attack to the neck is really just to take the uke back and off balance.
   


3. 
   Same as above except after the inital cut yoko aruki and move into kasumi no kamae. Cut down to the closest knee and noto as you move 360 degrees to view your surroundings.
   


4. 
   Same as above except at the right distance draw the blade underhanded cutting with dogiri. Rotate the blade to cut shomengiri as your rotate to the outside. Regrip the tsuka and drop your weight as you cut the neck.
   


5. 
   Same as the first one above except you're walking on the left side of the uke. At the right moment step in front of the uke as you draw cutting the neck, move into hasso no kamae and cut closest knee.
   


6. 
   Same as the first above except the uke reacts by raising the tsuka as a guard. Advance and cut either leg.
   


7. 
   Same as above except you are receiving the attack. You guard with the tsuka then throw your weight and sword downward. When your sword is pointed towards the ground draw it. When you raise up tsuki to the neck.
   


8. 
   Same as the first above except you are armed with metsubushi. At an appropiate distance throw the metusbushi then draw and attack. This was also done with senbanshuriken and boshuriken. The senbanshuriken were thrown with the hand moving in an upward arc from the hip to the target.
   

Richmond (Dave @ Doug's) Class 10/17/2006

Dave attended the Luke Molitor seminar last weekend in Ohio and he covered that material. I think this was everything.

1. 
   Uke: Attacks with diajodan shomen giri.
   Tori: From seigan shift to the inside cut to the kote, shift to the left cutting the other kote, finish with do-giri.
   


2. 
   Uke: Attacks with diajodan shomen giri.
   Tori: From seigan shift to the outside then move in switching your feet and doing a push cut across the arms affecting the balance. Hook the bottom of the tsuka on the inside of the uke's front elbow. Rotate in front of the uke trapping their front arm against your body and under your right arm. Continue with a kesa giri to the neck.
   


3. 
   Same as above except once you're in reach around and grab the mune and drive the blade into the uke's neck.
   


4. 
   Uke: Attacks with diajodan shomen giri.
   Tori: From seigan shift to the outside with your blade on top of the uke's blade. Rotate your blade so the mune is down as you move the uke's blade to your left affecting the uke's balance. Your blade should be guarding you. Rotate it back so the mune is down. Your blade should be underneath the uke's as you move into daijodan "throwing" the uke's blade away from you and over the uke exposing his side. Finish with do-giri.
   


5. 
   Uke: Tsuki to chest.
   Tori: From seigan shift to the left and receive with jodan uke. Use your elbow and body to "throw" the uke's blade back and away as your stand up for kesa giri or do-giri.
   


6. 
   Uke: Tsuki to face with spear.
   Tori: Seigan no kamae. Shift to one side and cut the fingers or kote. I idea is the blade sticks to the shaft.
   


7. 
   Uke: Tsuki to face with spear.
   Tori: Seigan no kamae. Shift to the right and cut into the spear, blade gets stuck. Brace the tsuka against your hip and reach under grabbing the mune securing the spear. Shift to the left to upset uke's balance and attack with the shoto.
   


8. 
   Uke: Tsuki to face with spear.
   Tori: Seigan no kamae. Receive to the right with jodan uke. Grab the spear with your left hand. Rotate to your right 360 degrees maintaining contact with your back against the staff and cut one handed do-giri.
   


9. 
   Shiho Giri
   From hasso no kamae. Do giri, do giri, then tsuki or shomen giri.
   

Richmond (Dave @ Doug's) Class 10/12/2006

Dave attended the seminar Lauren hosted so he went over that material. What I remember...

Receiving punches with your elbows down and your hands up lightly touching the uke's arm with your elbow. I'm not sure about the weight distribution on the feet but I think it was more forward.

1. 
   Uke: Tsuki to face.
   Tori: Move to the inside with ichimonji no kamae and receive with your forward arm/elbow. Holding onto the arm shift forward along your line taking the uke's balance and doing yoko aruki with your rear foot stepping behind your front instead of the usual way of stepping in front. Three variations were done from here. 1) Apply ganseki nage as you drop to your rear knee. 2) Apply musha dori. 3) After moving forward move back in the opposite direction moving the uke's arm up and shoulder down so that the uke twists and the uke's back is towards you.
   


2. 
   We did an exercise on taking the uke's balance using the movements in the technique above. After the yoko aruki you place the uke's hand on your knee to keep him from falling.
   


3. 
   Koku
   The difference here was when the kick comes you twist to avoid it and spring right back to catch the foot/leg with your knee/foot. You have to be quick with this movement.
   


4. 
   Renyo
   I don't remember anything being different about this kata except more emphasis was put on using your elbow to lock the uke's arm and control him.
   

Richmond (Doug) Class 9/28/2006

It has been few days now but I'll try my best to recall what happened after the ukemi and sanshin...

1. 
   Uke: Double lapel grab.
   Tori: Grab the flesh behind the elbow to control the uke. Use the uke's elbows to take the balance. If they attempt to kick you should be able to take them off balance easily.
   


2. 
   Uke: Tsuki to face, same side kick to stomach, opposite hand tsuki to stomach.
   Tori: Step to the outside with ichimonji no kamae and perform an uke nagashi to the outside of the elblow. With your free hand lightly touch the uke's wrist. Slightly evade the kick sorta like in koku. Perform a gedan uke nagashi with the free hand to the incoming punch. Apply omote gyaku. EDIT: There is a shuto to the neck before the omote gyaku and this is called saka nagare. Thanks Dave.
   

That's really all I can remember. That and Matt showing me how to do backflips. I won't be training this week but when I'm back I'll have backflips down within a week. :-)

Gambatte!