azerel
White Belt
First, hello to everyone on boards. I stumbled upon them last night and i found them awesome, especially for someone from country that has VERY limited number of MA practicioners.
Anyway, i've been training ninpo taijustsu in Bosnia and Herzegovina's only Bujinkan Dojo for some two months now. I have never been much of a sportsman but I used to work on many strength-demandind jobs so, with 189 cm height and 110 kg weight, I have some fat around waist but also great deal od muscles. I always thought of myself as a slow-moving but strong and durable, not so agile or nimble but able to withstand imense pain without problems.
Now, I came to the problem that after some two months of two times-a-week training, and some very limited training at home due to exams, I'm still unable to do zempo kaiten (forward roll) as smoothly or as efficiently as others in my dojo. I understand fact that I'm newbie, but still it can be embarassing when people who train for year or so do it great, and one can still hear me roll crack (shoulder), crack (hips) and crack (legs)
My problem is, as I and my Sensei see it, is overly thinking of it and some measure of fear from falling (as I recently had very bad head injury due to falling - this explaining my bad spelling ) so I always seem to roll sideways, to put knee on ground before shoulder and couple of times I even pressed inner side of my hands with knee.
Anyone had similar problems or anyone has some solutions to this?
Anyway, i've been training ninpo taijustsu in Bosnia and Herzegovina's only Bujinkan Dojo for some two months now. I have never been much of a sportsman but I used to work on many strength-demandind jobs so, with 189 cm height and 110 kg weight, I have some fat around waist but also great deal od muscles. I always thought of myself as a slow-moving but strong and durable, not so agile or nimble but able to withstand imense pain without problems.
Now, I came to the problem that after some two months of two times-a-week training, and some very limited training at home due to exams, I'm still unable to do zempo kaiten (forward roll) as smoothly or as efficiently as others in my dojo. I understand fact that I'm newbie, but still it can be embarassing when people who train for year or so do it great, and one can still hear me roll crack (shoulder), crack (hips) and crack (legs)
My problem is, as I and my Sensei see it, is overly thinking of it and some measure of fear from falling (as I recently had very bad head injury due to falling - this explaining my bad spelling ) so I always seem to roll sideways, to put knee on ground before shoulder and couple of times I even pressed inner side of my hands with knee.
Anyone had similar problems or anyone has some solutions to this?