While our Sensei Ben and Alison have been in Okinawa, my son has been working with Sensei Graham on Saturdays and doing quite a bit of back to back work. This evening, was something different though, the Sensei of our honbu Dojo, Sensei Craig was taking the lesson.
They did "take to ground" and ground work in quite some detail, and my son was chosen to work with Sensei Craig to demonstrate. He was really happy and eager to try his skills on me when I got home from work. We managed to get the take down worked through, but we simply didn't have room for the ground work, so I guess will have to find time later in the week to practise that, when we can make a bit of space 😊
For the record, the take down was to trap a mawashi geri, take hold of the gi with the other hand, then leg sweep and push. He had fun with that 😊😊 As a parent, there is nothing better than coming home to a son's (or daughter's) enthusiasm and wanting to demonstrate new things 😊😊
On a practical note, my reading is starting to convince me to keep my kicks low when I practise, and try to get my technique better, before I try to get the kicks higher. Also to practise more slowly at home and try to get the form better. Hopefully that should start to improve the accuracy, especially of the yoko geri and ushiro geri kicks.
I'm pretty sure that this is what my Sensei have been trying to tell me for some time, but I obviously need it drumming in. Seeing others get their kicks higher makes me want to try too, but I need to master the basics first 😊
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