Last night there were eight だん level students and three きゅ level students. After a short stretching session lead by Doug I started off with simple うけみ。From しぜんのかまえ perform a みぎぜんぽうかいてん, stand up and rotate 180 degrees, then perform a みぎこうほうかいてん。After a few minutes we did the same on the left side. After that we practiced そくほうかいてん。After that we practiced ぜんぽうかいてん coming up into いちもんじのかまえ and rotating 90 degrees and performing こうほうかいてん。This made an L shape on the floor. I then talked about how the かまえ you "land" in after the かいてん, which I described as げだんいちもんじのかまえ, allows you to move in any direction and perform any other type of うけみ。I also reiterated the points to aid in performing smooth うけみ。After that we practiced standing in いちもんじのかまえ、shifting from left to right, and moving forward from left side to right side. I also reiterated the points that make up good かまえ。That concluded the warm up and what I feel to be the three pillars of good taijutsu/basics: flexibility, ukemi, and kamae.
Joel shared with us again some material from the recent seminar he attended. First we did the みぎかたうでとんそうがた again. Then he showed us a little trick with a band aid. After that we did migite kubi suji tonsou gata (みぎてくびすじとんそうがた - right hand back of neck escape form). The spelling and translation of the name here may not be completely accurate but it is clear what happens.
I believe that concluded the class. Good stuff.
がんばってください！
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