Träning och sånt

No practicing yesterday and no practicing today. I have been way to tired and that's for no reason at all. So today I went out for a drive with my Street Triple instead. That usually helps. Just driving around on the countryside I found this perfect road for bikes. It turned out to be one of the most popular roads for bikers around Stockholm. It has this café, Rosenhill, where a lot of bikers meet with their motorcycles every weekend when it's nice weather. Some of my friends use to stop there, and now I know how to get there too. When I got home I wasn't that tired any more. Just driving around helps a lot.

Yesterday I was just way to tired to go to training. We ended up at Espresso House with a good Coffee instead planning some details for the Tatsu Karate website. During the day I did some Pinan Nidan practicing. It's a bit difficult to do it properly when you don't have enough space but I did my best. Now it's time for some breakfast and then to go to the Dojo for some Koryu Uchinadi practicing on our own.

Todays Koryu Uchinadi practicing was Kihon Kamae Waza Solo and Kihon Uke Waza Solo level 2. It's not remembering the moves in the exercise that is difficult now. It's to do the movements the right way. To remember to use the hips and things like that. I have also practiced some Sankukai Kata today and it's getting better all the time. Just needs a lot of practice. Realized that this July 14 I have practiced Karate for 5 years. Most amazing is that I started practicing Karate at all at that age, not flexible at all and having no coordination what so ever. People don't believe me when I tell them now. Now I'm here, practicing at least a little every day, traveling to other countries for seminars and Gasshukus, practicing several martial arts. Maybe I should just celebrate that day.

Today we started with strictly Kihon Suri Ashi Gyaku Tsuki, Mae Geri and Mawashi Geri. When we had finished the Kihon training for today we did some Sparring with low kicks and kicking and punching to the body and the head. We only do skin touch to the head at our Dojo, and some more contact to the rest of the body. We practiced some self defense techniques on the ground as well. How to defend yourself against someone who is punching you in different situations, like if the opponent are sitting on top of you. Last thing we did was to get up standing again and break the opponents balance in different ways. It's important to move your own body when doing that.

Yesterday I tried to focus on the Kihon Uke Waza Solo level 2. I just don't do it good enough yet to go to next level. Now it's with the Ashi Sabaki and Uke. Next step will be to add the Tsuki. Late yesterday I also looked into Pinan Shodan Bunkai. I don't know where to start with the Bunkai Practicing, but now I at least got two that I can start out with. The Morote Uchi Uke and the Shuto Uke.

Tori holds Uke's clothes with both hands. Uke strikes with the right arm over Toris one arm and sticks it down between the arms towards the left arm to do the Morote Uchi Uke. This will make Tori loose the balance a little and Toris head goes forward to one side. Uke steping forward to the Senkosu dachi is to take care of Toris balance by pushing his arm to the side in which the head went. From here Uke puts the left arm around Toris head and grab the ear (or fish hooking), takes a step back to Shiko dachi and do the Gedan barai without letting the ear go. Tori falls to the ground backwards.

Today I was able to train as hard as I use to for the first time after the cold. That makes me so happy. We started the training with some sparring with punching only and continued with punching and low kicks only. We also practiced to get up from the ground as soon as possible when the fight goes down there. It's really difficult if you are the one on the ground and the opponent still standing up. Or in a self defence situation if the opponents friends come and start kicking you into the head or something. Try to get up as fast as you can. I have to practice that a lot! After a short stretching we did a lot of spinning, jumping high kicks of all kind. Just playing around having fun with those the rest of the training. We don't practice them very often. It got a bit late because I stayed in the dojo for a while after the training talking to my friends and doing a lot of stretching. Some body parts will hurt badly tomorrow after doing all the high kicks!!!