Reflections
Thursday...
... brought many visitors in the dojo. There were about 6-7-8. Two of them from my Uni, a Tajik girl and her boyfriend. The girl seems to be enthusiastic about training - or simply she liked our outfit? :))) - the next day she wrote me an email asking about places where she could purchase the training gear. I told her to slow down a bit and try the training for a while in plain jogging suit or I lend her a white Gi - as balck Gi is quite expensive here and it would be a waste of money buying it just to find out later on that BBT is not the thing she wants.
That day we had a very exhausting training: we did a lot of kuzushi work, mainly against attacks started with kumiuchi, and we went through on Goho no Kata. We did a lot of henka which I really liked. I like it when we do different henka on Thursdays, as those are 3 hours long trainings and I always get mentally and physically tired by the end of the training. And the real "fun" starts only after then, when you have to do things while you don't feel like, not in the mood, tired, hungry, thirsty, annoyed. I noticed that in these cases it is easier to go on if you release all these and just be there and do what they tell you, and don't bother about anything. Not even about how to do the technique properly. So I really enjoyed that training.
Friday...
... I met the girl who will teach me Japanese. See below. I even got somw homework. I have a week to learn to write and recognize the first four "a, i, u, e, o" lines. Now I am not bored. is all I can say.
Sunday...
...turned the life of our little country upside down. It's the usual 4-yearly election again. MSZP (Hungarian Socialist Party) won, the same group that has given the Prime Minister in the past 4 years. I am not too optimistic about the future...
To forget about the disgusting politics I went for a walk to the nearby field. Also planned to train there but I had such a migraine again that I wanted everything but moving. So I turned back after a lenghty walk. Probably my body suspected something. I can always predict major changes in the weather with my head.
Monday...
...morning I could hardly creep out of the bad and felt dizzy all morning. Then I've learnt that a huge cyclon is approachnig towards the country, which actually brings a tornado in the area!!! WOW! I've been living in this country for 31 years now but never seen or heard of a tornado in here!!! What the heck is going on with the weather?? Weather forecast said it is expected to reach the area on Wednesday sometime and can be felt in Southern Hungary, also probably a bit in Pest County where I live. We'll see. I put my scarf and an extra pair of socks in my back pack tomorrow, just in case. As the weather turned to good by the afternoon, I went for running. I have run about 3 kilometers in 20 minutes which I think is good, considering that I have not run since about October, when the bad weather came in.
I could hardly wait for it, running just throws me up and I always feel much better the next day. So I am planning to do it regularly again, every other day after returning from Japanese class, when I don't have training.
Tuesday (today)...
... training was a real delicacy, although I got injured cos I was stupid. We did a fair amount of ukemi in three lines, but only two had mats, and I had to be in the 3rd one, on the hard floor. Which is usually okay if I do ukemi properly but this time somehow I was so clumsy that when I put down my right shoulder I always hit it. After a while it got all bruised and badly swollen, even now I can hardly lift up my arm. So I've put some cold wet cloth on it. We did the most unique ukemi, which I have never seen/done before, and I really liked them. Cool, some dessert for practising :) After then we played a bit with reflexes and kuzushi. I distributed a lot of slaps on my opponent's face which made Attila staisfied, but I also got a fair amount so it was a real give and take :-D It was very long ago when I got hit on my face with a slap anyway, so it was kind of an interesting experience to feel it again :-D
In the second half of the training I was paired up with another beginner, an Aikidoka, who just joined us today. It gave me a little nostalgy to see the same movements done as I did back then when I was 14-16 years old. And the same mistakes :-D I don't know how it is in Japan, but most Aikidokas in Hungary can't do a proper ukemi, they always end up sitting on their whole foot stretched out under themselves. Also, they can not attack properly, can not deliver a normal punch. This is really a great problem of Aikido here. It's been like this about 15-16 years ago, and it did not change a bit since then..???** *shaking head***
Anyhow, I'd let the guy have some success as knowing it from my own example, it can be very inspiring.
I also did try to do the techniue on him but hardly dared to hit/wring/grab his limbs cos it always hurt him pretty much. I just only indicated a hit on his stomach and he was padding on it for quite a while.
I asked him how come that an Aikidoka shifts to this MA? (In Hungary Aikidokas consider us as kind of enemies, assassins, cos we learn to kill and stuuf, you know - and they mean it! Quite a prude crowd in this means.) He said he was curious and wanted to try it out. We will see whether we scare him away or manage to debauch him :-))) hehehe
... brought many visitors in the dojo. There were about 6-7-8. Two of them from my Uni, a Tajik girl and her boyfriend. The girl seems to be enthusiastic about training - or simply she liked our outfit? :))) - the next day she wrote me an email asking about places where she could purchase the training gear. I told her to slow down a bit and try the training for a while in plain jogging suit or I lend her a white Gi - as balck Gi is quite expensive here and it would be a waste of money buying it just to find out later on that BBT is not the thing she wants.
That day we had a very exhausting training: we did a lot of kuzushi work, mainly against attacks started with kumiuchi, and we went through on Goho no Kata. We did a lot of henka which I really liked. I like it when we do different henka on Thursdays, as those are 3 hours long trainings and I always get mentally and physically tired by the end of the training. And the real "fun" starts only after then, when you have to do things while you don't feel like, not in the mood, tired, hungry, thirsty, annoyed. I noticed that in these cases it is easier to go on if you release all these and just be there and do what they tell you, and don't bother about anything. Not even about how to do the technique properly. So I really enjoyed that training.
Friday...
... I met the girl who will teach me Japanese. See below. I even got somw homework. I have a week to learn to write and recognize the first four "a, i, u, e, o" lines. Now I am not bored. is all I can say.
Sunday...
...turned the life of our little country upside down. It's the usual 4-yearly election again. MSZP (Hungarian Socialist Party) won, the same group that has given the Prime Minister in the past 4 years. I am not too optimistic about the future...
To forget about the disgusting politics I went for a walk to the nearby field. Also planned to train there but I had such a migraine again that I wanted everything but moving. So I turned back after a lenghty walk. Probably my body suspected something. I can always predict major changes in the weather with my head.
Monday...
...morning I could hardly creep out of the bad and felt dizzy all morning. Then I've learnt that a huge cyclon is approachnig towards the country, which actually brings a tornado in the area!!! WOW! I've been living in this country for 31 years now but never seen or heard of a tornado in here!!! What the heck is going on with the weather?? Weather forecast said it is expected to reach the area on Wednesday sometime and can be felt in Southern Hungary, also probably a bit in Pest County where I live. We'll see. I put my scarf and an extra pair of socks in my back pack tomorrow, just in case. As the weather turned to good by the afternoon, I went for running. I have run about 3 kilometers in 20 minutes which I think is good, considering that I have not run since about October, when the bad weather came in.
I could hardly wait for it, running just throws me up and I always feel much better the next day. So I am planning to do it regularly again, every other day after returning from Japanese class, when I don't have training.
Tuesday (today)...
... training was a real delicacy, although I got injured cos I was stupid. We did a fair amount of ukemi in three lines, but only two had mats, and I had to be in the 3rd one, on the hard floor. Which is usually okay if I do ukemi properly but this time somehow I was so clumsy that when I put down my right shoulder I always hit it. After a while it got all bruised and badly swollen, even now I can hardly lift up my arm. So I've put some cold wet cloth on it. We did the most unique ukemi, which I have never seen/done before, and I really liked them. Cool, some dessert for practising :) After then we played a bit with reflexes and kuzushi. I distributed a lot of slaps on my opponent's face which made Attila staisfied, but I also got a fair amount so it was a real give and take :-D It was very long ago when I got hit on my face with a slap anyway, so it was kind of an interesting experience to feel it again :-D
In the second half of the training I was paired up with another beginner, an Aikidoka, who just joined us today. It gave me a little nostalgy to see the same movements done as I did back then when I was 14-16 years old. And the same mistakes :-D I don't know how it is in Japan, but most Aikidokas in Hungary can't do a proper ukemi, they always end up sitting on their whole foot stretched out under themselves. Also, they can not attack properly, can not deliver a normal punch. This is really a great problem of Aikido here. It's been like this about 15-16 years ago, and it did not change a bit since then..???** *shaking head***
Anyhow, I'd let the guy have some success as knowing it from my own example, it can be very inspiring.
I also did try to do the techniue on him but hardly dared to hit/wring/grab his limbs cos it always hurt him pretty much. I just only indicated a hit on his stomach and he was padding on it for quite a while.
I asked him how come that an Aikidoka shifts to this MA? (In Hungary Aikidokas consider us as kind of enemies, assassins, cos we learn to kill and stuuf, you know - and they mean it! Quite a prude crowd in this means.) He said he was curious and wanted to try it out. We will see whether we scare him away or manage to debauch him :-))) hehehe
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