The first day of classes is finished, and as you might expect, it was like trying to drink from a firehose.
The morning classes were kind of a blur. The techniques Takeguchi sensei concentrated on were nikkyo and sankyo from yokomenuchi, as well as shihonage and iriminage (and kokyunage) from ushiro tekubitori
There were times during the morning classes where it was coming so fast and furious I was struggling to keep up. I'm still very confused about the application of shihonage from ushiro tekubitori Takeguchi shihan demonstrated.
The afternoon began with weapons. Bokuto were used to demonstrate control of the center (center line). Jo were then broken out and used to illustrate how the back hand and hip are critical to a succesful throw, the jo solidifying the otherwise hypothetical connections between the two hands and the hips and the hands.
The second class of the afternoon was about kuzushi: using small body
movements to control uke's balance. Moving uke's hips out from under
him or her, and the idea of the third leg
were emphasized. The
third leg is the one that makes a stool stable, and that people don't
have. If uke's balance is shifted toward this theoretical third
leg
, uke becomes unstable, making it possible for nage to execute a
technique resulting in a throw or pin.
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