Circle block is fucking with my head.
Sep. 9th, 2010 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodsong1Srsly, it's totally backwards! Inside to out or outside to in? Opposite hand, which is actually the same hand that's attacking you, and the knee that attacks is the same as the hand that blocks which is the same as the hand that's attacking and AUGH!
*flails madly*
On a related note, I've finally figured out the blocking trick to Tai-kyoku san-dan. Bottom arm blocks. Whoot.
Tai-kyoku sho-dan is easier. Down blocks only.
I made contact a few times with my sparring partner, an absolutely GORGEOUS brown belt who turns out to be a high schooler who knows my nephew. I apologized each time and she laughed it off, as it wasn't a full strike, but boy did she grab my arm! I expect finger shaped bruises in the next few days.
At least I made it through the entire session. Tuesday I had to bow out of sparring. Lightheadedness caused by dehydration. Take a drink at every break!
Excuse me, I now have to bully a 10 year old boy into a shower.
*chases IDK with her bokken*
*flails madly*
On a related note, I've finally figured out the blocking trick to Tai-kyoku san-dan. Bottom arm blocks. Whoot.
Tai-kyoku sho-dan is easier. Down blocks only.
I made contact a few times with my sparring partner, an absolutely GORGEOUS brown belt who turns out to be a high schooler who knows my nephew. I apologized each time and she laughed it off, as it wasn't a full strike, but boy did she grab my arm! I expect finger shaped bruises in the next few days.
At least I made it through the entire session. Tuesday I had to bow out of sparring. Lightheadedness caused by dehydration. Take a drink at every break!
Excuse me, I now have to bully a 10 year old boy into a shower.
*chases IDK with her bokken*
