Archive for February 28th, 2006

Tonights class was small. 6 of us, counting the instructor. Mr. Koener led class tonight. We started out by doing all the basic uke in seiza, of all things. Talk about painful. I thought my legs were gonna need to be amputated. Afterwards, we did a few kata, and then moved on to partner basics up and down the floor. It’s just the way I’ve always said class should be. You’ve got partners, for god’s sake, make use of them. We did outward block, but we did it 4 different ways; concentrating on using the initial crossing motion as the actual block/strike that does the damage. It was very interesting. I found it very difficult to do some of the ways, and easy on the others.

On a more personal note, I’m still finding it quite difficult to do many of the techniques. They do everything completely opposite of the way I’ve been doing them for the last 20 years. It’s hard, but it makes me think… and that’s never bad. I got several personal corrections from the Mr. Koener, and that’s good. I need those corrections to help me distinguish the specifics of the techniques. Of all things, I really think that my cat stance is my biggest problem. I am having severe issues with assuming the correct stance. Much work is needed.

Overall, the class was very good. Nothing spectacularly special, but high quality.