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[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Second session: A few hours later, Kelvin joined for indoor-training. We focused on Gokyu\u00a0waza, 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.<\/p>\n Next session: Tuesday April 21, 2015, 7:oopm [\/av_one_full][av_one_third first] [av_image src=’https:\/\/meifushinkageryu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/target-3-495×400.jpg’ attachment=’23513′ attachment_size=’portfolio’ align=’center’ animation=’no-animation’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’][\/av_image] [av_one_third] [av_image src=’https:\/\/meifushinkageryu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/target-5-495×400.jpg’ attachment=’23515′ attachment_size=’portfolio’ align=’center’ animation=’no-animation’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’][\/av_image] [av_one_third] [av_image src=’https:\/\/meifushinkageryu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/junco-1-495×400.jpg’ attachment=’23517′ attachment_size=’portfolio’ align=’center’ animation=’no-animation’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’][\/av_image] Session log April 18. 2015. Trying out the new outdoor-target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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