The snow meant that few enough people showed today that I ended up having to sweep, but this meant that Sensei was able to give us more detailed instruction on shiai-useful waza, mostly taiatari, and tsuki, which somehow fails to help me so much, one because I'm in mudansha, and two because I absolutely suck at it. I need to keep my arms tucked in and not wobble around my left hand quite as much. I am still trying to figure out why my left shin sometimes hurts, but I suppose that having injured feet doesn't help.

Still, again I would have preferred jigeiko to shiaigeiko. Against a nyubian kohai, I managed two straight men rather rapidly--in the first case after chasing him--he's slow to turn around, and then by winning an ai-men with tenouchi, for once. Against my immediate sempai, i lost out of a soft-men, but then with my bioshinai kept on twisting it, so sensei stopped the match, long-enough for me to recompose myself and nail his men from kamae, so we ended up in hikiwake.

The fun part of practice was the circular-ippon-challenge. One person in the middle, fights all comers to ippon, who can come from any side, though in this case we went around. I lasted two rounds at the most, the second match rather hard fought before managing a well-tired men against someone much taller than me.