Training Diary (24 Apr 2006)

Woops, I haven't been doing these for a little bit now. Let's get up to speed…

Monday, April 17th: Didn't work out, since my knee was still hurting.

Wednesday, April 19th: took it easy, served as Darcy's uke for a couple of demos. We worked on a nice combo — an advancing de-ashi-barai into o-soto-gari/o-soto-guruma. Very slick. Make sure you do the sweep first; if it works, great, and if it's not quite a success, you've got the space to move in for a very tight o-soto-[gari|guruma].

Tonight:

Present: Mike F, Jeff P, Marc, Alex, Herb, Me.

Did: Warm-up, moving uchikomis, then Mike did an impromptu self-defense seminar. Not a lot of sweat but an interesting lesson. Things to drill into the lower ranks: The first rule of self-defense is to get away without a fight.