2006 Workout #3: Early Morning Kata…

This morning’s class was spent working largely on Tekki Nidan with Dad and Hickman. We did 20 Tekki Nidans before our attention turned to Sochin.

Sochin is the kata that I have decided to work on for my Sandan test. I haven’t been working on it much lately, and that was very obvious Sunday morning. My legs and knees have been screaming in protest all day long as a result of the five Sochin kata that we did in very short succession.

I decided to take a pause on sparring again this morning because I’ve had kata on the brain. I don’t know if its the intrigue of digging into a kata that I never really felt totally comfortable with (Tekki Nidan) or the desire to dive in deeper on a kata that I know I will have to do for a long time (Sochin), but I haven’t wanted to do much else lately.

Sochin-dachi feels pretty bad… it just seems that whenever I try to move in that stance my feet slide around and I can never get rooted. I’ve tried dropping my center as I settle into the stance, that just makes my feet do some strange gyrations and the problem persists. I need to work on this kata more, for sure.

Plus I’ve found that somewhere along the line apprehension has built up around my sparring… I’m not taking the shot when I see it line up in front of me. Perhaps it was an isolated incident on Tuesday and I just need to get back in there and see what it feels like. I was watching mix it up with a few of the other black belts and it sure looked like fun.