I'm trying to get back in the habit of blogging my training logs so here goes:
Saturday we began with walking and releases, then moved on to Junana 1-17. There are some days I feel like putting my yellow belt back on, and this was one of them. Junana 1 through about 10 felt pretty unsuccessful to me. 11 felt a little better, but 12 was the pits. On a positive note, numbers 16 and 17 might have felt better than they ever have before. We practiced "trickle-down aiki-nomics" on number 4, and that felt a lot better to me. Felt more controlled, and kinder to uke. We also added an ouchigari footsweep to number 16 when it wouldn't quite "go", and that was fun and effective.
We talked about the fine lines between effortlessness, efficiency, and effectiveness. That's a balance I'll be trying to find for a long time to come.
Who coined the phrase "trickle down aiki-nomics"?
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I heard it from Pat, but I thought he got it from you!
DeleteI though it was a very successful day for you - especially on 1 thru 10. We emphasized'a'different facet of the magic - which we do often - and you looked like you'd done it all before. You have to remember - when we place a different emphasis on stuff you already know for a particular class, were not invalidating all the stuff you already know. And were not changing everything out from under you. Were just shining a different wavelength of light on something that you're already intimately familiar with so you can get a different sort of appreciation for it.
ReplyDeleteYou're doing great! Keep it up!
Ha, yeah Erik, that is my mnemonic name for your thing you were showing us at okc a while back about disrupting several joints in succession from top to bottom of ukes structure. You called it something like "7 stars" or something I think...
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