Session April 18, 2015

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Participants: Kelvin, Chris.

Today, we had two sessions. Earlier in the day, I decided to use materials that I had on hand to build an outside shuriken target. I did not want to make a permanent target, since my son often plays in the backyard and has friends over. Over the wood, I installed 3 layers of used puzzle-mats. On top of that, I placed the actual target mat. This way, the shuriken does not penetrate the wood as much, which preserves the tip much better.

First session: After the target was build (in the rain), I practiced nikyu waza, focusing on shomen-uchi and gyaku-uchi from 1.5 ken. The birds, who had arrived earlier in the morning, sang a nice song and were eagerly looking for seeds. After about 1 hour, it started to rain heavily, and therefore discontinued the training.

Second session: A few hours later, Kelvin joined for indoor-training. We focused on Gokyu waza, going through all kamae, tenouchi, zanshin, and reiho. Performing technique, we spent quite some time on ashi-sabaki and hip movement. Kelvin’s skill really improved during this hour.

Next session: Tuesday April 21, 2015, 7:oopm
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