Tip-(no)-toe-ing
Yesterday RI and me visited DJH's dojo again - we decided to visit them once a month.
The training was good but the guys were *very* violent. I mean they could not control themselves.
We did different techniques against a grab and punch combination.
As far as I noticed - and RI shares the same opinion - both this and last months training was rather SFR-style than KKSR. Way too SFR style. Probably D did not have the opportunity yet to put together what KKSR is like or which techniques are in there. Anyway, it is not my business.
So we did various improvisations, and at the end of the training we sat down in a huge circle, one person had to enter the center and do an improvised technique against everyone, one by one. I had to start it first, and luckilly went through quite smoothly on all the guys, despite the fact that I could not load my right foot, as RI stepped on it (thanks again! ;-) )and it had hurt badly. One or two guys managed to put me down on the ground but the rest was quite okay.
When the others did some techniques against each other and also when I was the uke for most of them, they got nervous (you can simply see it on the opponent), flustered and started applying an incredible amount of muscle power combined with speed. Of course they could never control the uke and they often ended up with sloppily beating the crap out of the other.
Two of the guys were especially crazy with me and RI (and with the others too). One of them smashed me into the ground unbelieveably hard.
The only one occasion when I exeprienced such a cruel impact into the ground, was when I lived back in my hometown and the local Sport Association wanted to hire a guy to hold a self defense course and they asked us to help testing him. The guy was an instructor of a S.W.A.T.-like unit at the military and was *very good* in unarmed combat. He had beaten us up like hell, but at least I could stand the mud without a word.
Anyway, yesterday my luck was that my torso is very muscular (yes guys, under the padding :-) ) and that it was tatami and not concrete. The other guy hit my head with his fist with totally no controll. It was my fault too because my distance and direction sucked and I did not protect my head well enough but even then he should have paid attention to his uke and not delivering a punch with full power to the other person's skull. Even now my head hurts when I touch it with my fingertips.
Poor RI was kicked *really hard* on the nuts, they did not stop the kick in time. Two people did this to him, one after the another, so he was quite upset at the end. Even today at training he has been grumbling a bit about it - but he was totally right.
So all in all, these guys could be way better if they would not try winning over the other with any possible method but would rather concentrate on feeling the movement. There will always be a stronger opponent or a better fighter than them. Not to mention what if they grow old and be 60-70-80 years old men? They won't be able to use the same amount of power that they do now. But then it will be too late to realize that.
Anyway, thanks to RI I got home at a fairly good time, he gave me a lift with his car. I really appreciated it since after the end of the training I could already hardly stand on my right foot, it did hurt so much. By the time I got home it became all purple and swollen. Today everything took longer, the daily routine, going to work, walk in the uni, not to mention how crap I was during tonight's training, not being able to put weight on my right foot. I think the small toe is broken.
Need I tell how happy I am now? A few days before the Brussels seminar I break my small toe... I did not think it affects my taijutsu this much. Anyway, still better than a broken knee :-)
The training was good but the guys were *very* violent. I mean they could not control themselves.
We did different techniques against a grab and punch combination.
As far as I noticed - and RI shares the same opinion - both this and last months training was rather SFR-style than KKSR. Way too SFR style. Probably D did not have the opportunity yet to put together what KKSR is like or which techniques are in there. Anyway, it is not my business.
So we did various improvisations, and at the end of the training we sat down in a huge circle, one person had to enter the center and do an improvised technique against everyone, one by one. I had to start it first, and luckilly went through quite smoothly on all the guys, despite the fact that I could not load my right foot, as RI stepped on it (thanks again! ;-) )and it had hurt badly. One or two guys managed to put me down on the ground but the rest was quite okay.
When the others did some techniques against each other and also when I was the uke for most of them, they got nervous (you can simply see it on the opponent), flustered and started applying an incredible amount of muscle power combined with speed. Of course they could never control the uke and they often ended up with sloppily beating the crap out of the other.
Two of the guys were especially crazy with me and RI (and with the others too). One of them smashed me into the ground unbelieveably hard.
The only one occasion when I exeprienced such a cruel impact into the ground, was when I lived back in my hometown and the local Sport Association wanted to hire a guy to hold a self defense course and they asked us to help testing him. The guy was an instructor of a S.W.A.T.-like unit at the military and was *very good* in unarmed combat. He had beaten us up like hell, but at least I could stand the mud without a word.
Anyway, yesterday my luck was that my torso is very muscular (yes guys, under the padding :-) ) and that it was tatami and not concrete. The other guy hit my head with his fist with totally no controll. It was my fault too because my distance and direction sucked and I did not protect my head well enough but even then he should have paid attention to his uke and not delivering a punch with full power to the other person's skull. Even now my head hurts when I touch it with my fingertips.
Poor RI was kicked *really hard* on the nuts, they did not stop the kick in time. Two people did this to him, one after the another, so he was quite upset at the end. Even today at training he has been grumbling a bit about it - but he was totally right.
So all in all, these guys could be way better if they would not try winning over the other with any possible method but would rather concentrate on feeling the movement. There will always be a stronger opponent or a better fighter than them. Not to mention what if they grow old and be 60-70-80 years old men? They won't be able to use the same amount of power that they do now. But then it will be too late to realize that.
Anyway, thanks to RI I got home at a fairly good time, he gave me a lift with his car. I really appreciated it since after the end of the training I could already hardly stand on my right foot, it did hurt so much. By the time I got home it became all purple and swollen. Today everything took longer, the daily routine, going to work, walk in the uni, not to mention how crap I was during tonight's training, not being able to put weight on my right foot. I think the small toe is broken.
Need I tell how happy I am now? A few days before the Brussels seminar I break my small toe... I did not think it affects my taijutsu this much. Anyway, still better than a broken knee :-)
4 comments:
About the training looking more SFR style and not so much KKSR: I don't think that every year there is a clear cut between the theme of last year and the new theme. Usually the new theme builds and the old one and it is just a continuation. Actually I would be surprised if training this year wouldn't partly look like the SFR training of last year.
Take care,
JR
I was not talking about any "clear cut", of course, especially at the beginning of the year - but there are certain characteristics of KKSR (at least by what I learnt about it) in which it differs from e.g. Shinden Fudo or Gyokko Ryu.
I did not see any of those characteristics, moreover what I saw was hard to imagine being done in yoroi.
I dunno, maybe it's just me who suck this much?... :-D Anyway, I am *very* curious of Thomas now :-)
Eva
Hope your toe is feeling better!!
Yes, it is much better now. Still hurts a bit when I want to wipe it with a towel after bath, but otherwise it's fine.
Thanks for your concern :)
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