Today’s training followed a similar pattern to yesterday. We started with warmups and a basic combination, this time inward block, jab to the face, lunge punch to the body. After doing that quite a bit, we switched to one-time attack partner training. The combination we worked on today was withdrawing in back stance. The attacking side did a lunge punch to the face, at what time the defender would shift back into back stance and do a rising block. Then we did an intentional shift forward into front stance, followed by a reverse punch. Sensei Yaguchi explained it was to “create a chance” for an attack, meaning that the back stance got you away from the attack so you could defend with a punch of your own.
Our partners for this drill was the group of 5th-7th dan black belts, which was pretty cool.
After this was done, it was kata time in similar fashion to yesterday. Today’s kata was Kanku Dai and I did just fine with the exception of a traffic jam midway through the kata which caused me to bobble the first kick heading into the knifehand blocks. During the second time through the kata I did just fine.
More tomorrow!
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