My last post was on Nov. 26th. Since then, there have been a lot of things that have occured since then. The most prominent thing would be the NSWKA championships that was held at USYD.
My first ever shiai. I played pretty good, did better than i had expected.For one, I won 2 matches which was well beyond my expectations. But still have a long way to go after seeing my shiai videos courtesy of peter. Zanshin and explosive left foot power is required.
Skip forward to today and from since then, I've only had 2 training sessions (inclusive of todays training at Sevenhills).
The other training was @ USYD Kendo - Redfern Townhall. Ground was pretty hard but I came prepared with a heel protector ^^
T'was pretty hot that day and I wasn't feeling too well. I felt nauseaus so I stopped for a while to recouperate. This occured during jigeiko, and louis was my partner and he seemed alright with it. Managed to recoup fast enough to get in a few minutes of jigeiko with Louis. A few more rotation and we had to packup as we had to get out of the hall by 6pm.
Training today was pretty good @ Seven Hills. Warmup consisted of moving the chairs onto the side of the hall so we had enough space. One of the beginners had bought bogu. After doing practice for the grading at picton which I will not be attending due to my friend's birthday; the beginner put on his dou & tare and then we got to whack it ^__^
Quite funny though, the set he bought (second and possibly 3rd hand but still in decent condition except for dou Himo), had a gold dou. Haha, was basically saying "HIT ME! HIT ME!"
Anyway, we did Kihon Dou cuts. Good to practice the basics everynow and then. I put on my men afterwards, did Kirikaeshi, Uchikomi-Geko & Keikari-Geko acting as a motodatchi for the beginners and then had a jigeiko session with the coach/sempai who was leading the training.
I'm finding that my left leg lags behind still and my posture goes to shits sometimes. Especially when trying to cut kote. Eventually, I got score a men point; whether or not he gave it to me I'm not too sure but this was a good training session.
One thing that i've also noticed is that I don't have enough dedication in my cuts. I'm hestitant in making some cuts. But I guess this goes back to the point of one cut, one kill; although i really should be worrying about that at this point of stage.
Anyway, untill next time. I shall bid you adieu.
