2006 Workout #101: Basics and Sparring, hooray!

Tonight’s workout was interesting… the pre-workout consisted of Dad and I working largely on his 2nd kyu test basics, which he correctly maintains we don’t do enough of. We muddled through a handful of Bassai Dai (around 4-5, I think) and then it was time for class to start. I did manage to sneak in three Sochin before things got rolling, but it was a very paltry sum.

I led warmups, and decided to punctuate each stretching exercise with basic technique to get the muscles moving. I somewhat enjoyed warming up like this, I may try it again given the chance. The first class was basic drills, which quickly evolved to partner training distance exercises. It was a good time, and a great set up for the advanced class.

For the advanced class, we continued the trend of sparring drills, but this time in a more relaxed, one time sparring mode. I felt like I was running hot and cold during this, with really good strong attacks with one partner, followed by really bad attacks with another. Overall, it felt good to let loose and blow some of the stress out of my system, despite the fact that most of my bad techniques were attempted while Sensei was watching. But that’s how things like this roll. 🙂

For some reason it became apparent to me midway through sparring that I used to do roundhouse kick all the time, and I very rarely do it at all anymore. I remember when I was a purple belt, my sister, Terry Tisdale, and I would all work on round kick, then slow spar forever trying to apply that kick. It was the heyday of the faux sweep followed by head level round kick technique… that made me try one on Sarah-san tonight and it really, really turned out badly. Maybe I need to sharpen that one up a little bit… I’ve become too side thrust kick reliant in my old age.

Big plans for this weekend, as (Not So) Secret Sochin II is scheduled for Saturday morning/afternoon in Mapleton. We’ll be starting at 8 am and going until they kick us out, if anyone cares to join.

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Sochin Counter
Accomplished / Goal == Percent Complete
1420 / 2000 == 71.00%
Average Kata per Workout: 15.11
Estimated Workouts Remaining: 39
Workouts that gained more than 1%: 31
Workouts that gained more then 5%: 1