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Thursday, 8 April 2010

Iaido 6th Dan Training Session 14

This evening marked the last iai practice with our sensei for a while as he sods off to Japan to try for his 8th dan Iaido. This means hopefully that I will now be able to spend a bit of time just working by myself and getting some shaku in.

This evening I set myself a plan of combining my four chosen koryu with three seitei into 7-form circuits thus gradually making my way through the seitei but getting the koryu practice stuck in as well. I did the 28 forms (woo hoo - 28!) and then my arm started hurting. It was a bit achey before the practice and I think that most dreaded ailment - gardening - might be responsible.

Perversely I am finding the koryu easier to perform well at the moment, seitei is becoming a bit of a drag.

Ah well, this is it for now, not much to report really. Next Wednesday I will be sensei wrangling to maybe no blog for a little bit.
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  1. PW8 April 2010 at 07:45

    Doing 7 form embu as grading practice is really worthwhile, while, of course changing the Seitei combinations on each turn.
    7 kata should be done in 8 minutes (Embu time = number of kata + 1 minute), this should enable about 15 sets in a 2 hour practice.

    Chris is off to Japan now, does that mean he won't be at Ishido Sensei's refereeing seminar? Damn, I was hoping to beat him again.

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  2. Andy Watson8 April 2010 at 09:06

    Hi Peter

    Yes, he won't be here I'm afraid. See you next week.

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