What did you do last class?

[Eternal Beginner]

Worked drills that practiced effective shooting and sprawling. Sprawling was practiced for what seemed like 1,000's of reps then rolled for rest of the class.

 

[swiftpete]

Had small class with 2 of us training with the instructor instructing. Spent the class doing grappling techniques and practice, then at the end we went for it free grappling. I submitted my partner 3 times in a row which was pretty cool (for me!)

 

[Aikikitty]

We started off with our usual bokken cuts/footwork. Then a couple of kokyu techniques to finish warming up. We did (or I tried to do) kotegaeshi in several different variations. It's been so long since I've last done it that I'm quite rusty. I made sensei laugh a few times from my mess ups (I don't mind) and even got one or two "good!" comments from him which always makes me feel great! We ended with kokyu dosa.

Robyn :asian:

 

[mj-hi-yah]

Tonight we had a visiting instructor. We spent most of the class talking about and working to improve our balance. It was was very interesting. He had us drill kicks while hooking our thumbs to our belts at our waists so we could not rely on our arms for counter-balance. We looked at our supporting leg to see how it should be bent (weight dropped). We observed the kicks of each other and of our instructor to see what we could in terms of body positioning and alignment...we explored questions such as, is the back straight or arched for the students compared to the instructor? Is the head facing the direction of the kick, why does this matter in terms of balance? We then worked a building series of kicks that we were to do without putting our kicking leg down. We also worked a side kick that when balanced properly and extended properly helped to close critical distance by an extra 4 inches or so. It was an awesome class! :asian:

 

[Andrew Green]

Worked a climbing guard.

Armbar
Triangle
Flower sweep
Omoplata

and I even nuck a arm scissor or two in

 

[mrhnau]

We worked on some knife defenses, then did a bit of free-sparring with some fake knives... sadly, one thing that stood out was that our knife defenses would be difficult to pull off in real time. Perhaps one reason is that its the first time I tried them and am still relatively a beginner... one good thing that came out of it is the idea that we will work more on knife, which is one of the things I've really been interested in

also did a few punch counters, which was quite fun...

 

[bushidomartialarts]

great idea.

last class i taught:

adult yellow and orange belt. warmed up by playing hackey sack with a punch target. circle up and throw three in, the students keep it in the air using only basic strikes and kicks. moved on from there to some kick drills with focus mits.

moved on to techniques (american kenpo), demoing them and partnering students up to work them.

moved to kata from there, adding pieces for each student.

finished by taking one technique, deconstructing it and having each student make up then demo a variation on the theme.

last class i attended:

started by demoing advanced kata -- each student and the instructor takes a turn.

spent time on partner work with conceptual concepts, movement based stuff. pretty subtle this time, manipulation of one side of the body to cancel the other side out.

went on to pick up two new techniques. finished with some kata polish.

 

[stickarts]

We went over tournament competition for our annual inner school tournament. It is great seeing everyone perform their kata with such intensity and get so excited about the "big" day!

 

[Cirdan]

We started with some light sparring for warm up.

Then we worked on on one with the various kumite drills for a while.

Latstly we did some kata with each student going trough his stuff. Two of the younger students graded last weekend so they starting learning new ones.

All in all a good class. I worked up a good sweat and I discovered a few new details I need to work on.