Springfield Class - 4/25/2006

Class was pretty small last night; just me, Jong, Brian, and Chris, who left only after about 30 minutes because of the threat of rain. When class begun we skipped ukemi and went right into the topic of the evening. Although, as usual before class I worked on ukemi, kamae, and stretching.

The first thing we did was worked on the basic punch but with a shinden fudo ryu feeling. So, from walking the punch is a natural part of the movement and flow of the walk. To me this is a basic taijutsu thing rather than a shinden fudo ryu thing but since shinden fudo ryu is about being natural and taijutsu is about natural body movement I guess they're one and the same.

The past couple of weeks we've been doing pretty much the same thing: henka from one or two basic movements.

1. 
   Uke: Punch to face.
   Tori: Immediately throw a sokuyaku geri and an urate shuto. The timing is such that when the geri contacts the uke will bring their neck/face to your shuto. Then apply ogyaku. Do ogyaku like you're spinning a bo. Prevent the uke from using ukemi. Jong pointed out that too much force with ogyaku will cause the uke to try and escape more then he usually would. It's best to lay the uke out flat on their stomach as much as possible.
   


2. 
   Uke: Punch to face.
   Tori: Maintain your space and immediately bring your hands up, one for guard and the other as a fudoken or boshiken to the face. With your free hand begin apply takeori the same way as doing ogyaku (spinning bo). Once the uke is on the toes immediately pull them down with an arm bar. A variation of this was instead of applying takeori just twist the wrist as you move under the arm. I actually didn't try it that way and will have to tonight.
   


3. 
   Same as the previous one only stand on their forward foot and take the balance without any joint locks.
   


4. 
   Uke: Hip throw.
   Tori: Probably the simplest counter is just taking your hand and putting it on the uke's face and taking the spine. Using the kyusho under the nose is very effective.
   


5. 
   Uke: Hip throw.
   Tori: Rotate to the outside freeing one of your arms. With the other begin omote gyaku. Apply omote gyaku as you rotate your body. We didn't practice it by keeping the uke's hand against your chest but I'll have to try it tonight.
   


6. 
   Uke: From seiza, lapel grab.
   Tori: From fudoza or normal legs crossed seating lean back with the grab, extend one of your legs to push your uke's forward knee away causing them to fall over then kick him.
   

That was pretty much it. We did the hip throw counter a few times with a tanto. The point to that was not cutting them unless they wanted to be cut. :-)

It never did rain and I had a good time.

Gambatte