2006 Workout #15: Are you there, God? Its me, Sochin…

Strange young adult novels from the 80’s aside, todays workout consisted of 20 Sochin kata. gave me some pointers on keeping my shoulders down and my back straight, as well as some help keeping my fudo dachi properly formed.

It appears that I wasn’t turning my rear leg out far enough and getting the rooted feeling of the stance all the way. Also, I was opening my stance too far on the front leg, causing my front half to lose connection with the floor. Basically, I need to figure out how to use the edges of my feet as brakes to stop my momentum and allow me a push off point.

This post almost got named “Stickman-san and the Lightship Fantastic”, because about 3/4 of the way through the workout, our good buddy got a jo staff stuck down the back of his belt and the top part taped to his head in order to break him from his leaning over habit. It was quite entertaining, I’m sure that will be along soon with photographic evidence.

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Sochin Counter
Accomplished / Goal == Percent Complete
165 / 2000 == 8.25%
Average Kata per Workout: 20.63
Estimated Completion Workout: 97