A few things to keep in mind after Friday and Sunday classes: 1. Finally, techniques that correspond to the “finger stretch” that we do during warmups: uke does a same-side wrist … Continue reading »
Sensei mentioned that Itai and I may be taking our first brown belt test — sankyu — towards the end of March. This fills us with fear; green belt … Continue reading »
I fell on my butt. Well, not quite, since falling on my butt isn’t particularly good ukemi. This happened while walking around early this afternoon in the freezing weather. It was … Continue reading »
My breakfall/free fall is all twisty. Here’s a video of it: (As a side note, this video was recorded off the Sony digital still camera. It was held … Continue reading »
Post-X-mas class. Only the crazy people showed up, so we had just green-belt on up. The tai sabaki warmups actually included some of the extra exercises that they … Continue reading »
A couple of new or not-recently-done techniques to remember: 1. Two-handed lapel grab: a sort of heaven-and-earth with uke’s elbows. If uke turns to regain balance, tai otosh to uke’s … Continue reading »
So, at the end of yesterday’s class, as I was doing back-and-forth-roundhouse with Mitsu, I threw him ippon and I heard a riiipppp. I looked down, and thought, crap: … Continue reading »
Testing out the new bookmarking regedit hack for IE6 I mentioned earlier. I wanted to get a reference in there for this old Slate article on UFC for some … Continue reading »