Vanilla
When I was a junior kyu grader, one day, I pondered about how many things there were to learn: entrances for various attacks, the different standard techniques, pins, tanto dori , ukemi for the different technqiues, bokken , tachi dori , jo , jotori , suwari waza , hanmi handachi . randori . . . 😓 "There are only 7 days in a week. I am already practicing 6 days a week. Yet, there are way more than 7 "categories of things" to practice. When will I ever be able to learn them all?" 😱 I was overwhelmed and discouraged. 😫 In one of our recent Randori Week classes, I started with aihanmi katate tori iriminage omote . We used the simple footwork of tsuki-ashi to enter and then throw. Then, we do the same technique from gyakuhanmi katate tori . Using two quick steps to switch hanmi , students find themselves once again in the familiar physical setup like in the last round. Then we switched the attack to shomenuchi : na...
