Tuesday's beating
Training tonight was not the brightest one for me.
I arrived late due to working some overtime and by the time I entered the dojo everyone had a pair, and they practiced tehodoki, with sabaki kata. I quickly warmed up and joined two guys, as a third one. Both of them were beginners and huge ones, over 100 kg both. One of them used to do Tae-Kwon-Do before, and it was very obvious by his movements. All those roundish steps and straight punches and kicks...
Anyway, we went into this tehodoki thing and since this guy was very tall compared to me, I had to "adjust" some things to the original technique, and this little adjustment was a kick on the groin, in order to "bring him down" to my height and also to kind of break his stability.
But when I kicked him and stopped the kick at the very last point, he was just standing there straight, as if nothing would have happened. Of course it caused me problems performing the technique properly, and I tried to explain to him why this was unrealistic. (Maybe I should not have?) But show me someone who if really got kicked on the nuts, will still be standing there straight and smiling at you... But he did not understand so I kind of gave it up. It's hopeless.
Also, him and the other guy were sometimes practising the techniques for so long, that by the time I could have got to doing anything the session was over and we had to move on to another technique.
So after a while I left them and shifted to other guys. I know how hard it is to practice realistically, not only for the tori, but also for the uke. But how come that someone having been involved in martial arts (or even in martial sports) for years, can not recognize what would be a normal reaction to a movement; or what is realistic and what is not?
Anyway, this was a lesson for tonight.
I arrived late due to working some overtime and by the time I entered the dojo everyone had a pair, and they practiced tehodoki, with sabaki kata. I quickly warmed up and joined two guys, as a third one. Both of them were beginners and huge ones, over 100 kg both. One of them used to do Tae-Kwon-Do before, and it was very obvious by his movements. All those roundish steps and straight punches and kicks...
Anyway, we went into this tehodoki thing and since this guy was very tall compared to me, I had to "adjust" some things to the original technique, and this little adjustment was a kick on the groin, in order to "bring him down" to my height and also to kind of break his stability.
But when I kicked him and stopped the kick at the very last point, he was just standing there straight, as if nothing would have happened. Of course it caused me problems performing the technique properly, and I tried to explain to him why this was unrealistic. (Maybe I should not have?) But show me someone who if really got kicked on the nuts, will still be standing there straight and smiling at you... But he did not understand so I kind of gave it up. It's hopeless.
Also, him and the other guy were sometimes practising the techniques for so long, that by the time I could have got to doing anything the session was over and we had to move on to another technique.
So after a while I left them and shifted to other guys. I know how hard it is to practice realistically, not only for the tori, but also for the uke. But how come that someone having been involved in martial arts (or even in martial sports) for years, can not recognize what would be a normal reaction to a movement; or what is realistic and what is not?
Anyway, this was a lesson for tonight.
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