Tonight's practice was a nice return after a long absense. Sensei tends to give two kinds of practices--either a very kiai-heavy, endurance-building, continuous-combination type of practice involving more and more strikes, or very slow-paced, basics heavy, hit-isolation paired training with less followthrough and a lot more emphasis on isolated elements. The latter was the style of tonight's practice, which meant that although I walked out not fully exhausted, I hadn't completely killed myself, especially since my dodgy throat condition meant that I had to push to produce any acceptable kiai.

I still need to work to make my kote strike more determined with proper zanshin, as I think I tend to think of making it smaller as a feint always, but of course kote is a perfectly fine strike all by itself.