Stance
Sensei Coleman noted after this evening’s class that my stance is atrocious when executing technique. I apparently wind up in the “waiting for a bus” stance, rather than hanmi, or horse stance, or feet together for a throw.
A couple of stance exercises to try, the first with an uke, the second without.
The first is for uke to just do random attacks, with tori moving. Tori should wind up in some reasonable stance — don’t worry about doing technique yet. Movement is of course using hitch step or tai sabaki. This also helps with seeing attacks, moving to get out of the way, and then doing a technique once you find yourself someplace.
The other stance exercise is to move in a triangle, hitching forward and to the left to one point of a triangle, then moving across, then moving back. No uke is needed for this.
Of course, I should do more tai sabaki and hitch step exercises, along with the Friday movement exercises: kotegaeshi 10, ippon, step to the middle, and close the window.