Having skipped two practice due to laziness, exhaustion, and general selfishness, I have less to recap--just today's Sunday practice, which thankfully had no SAR, just plenty of back-and-forth-men-on-the-blocks drills. Immediately followed by mentsuke, we then ended up lined up doing men-uchi, followed by a complicated men-taiatari-hiki-men-degote combination, whcih Sensei deemed perhaps too hard for us to master. Kote-men felt better today, as the emphasis was not at all on kote, but rather on men--and the key is to shorten the kote-step, but of course this is easier to say than to do. Several rounds of kirikaeshi (but not kakarigeiko) later, it was time for keiko.

Nothing too stellar, though three sensei. Visiting Sunday Sensei advised me to always go through (having demonstrated on me first with his devastating taiatari). Sensei himself told me that I need to practice and emphasize my shoulders, by which he probably means my lats--possible the same as the kyudo muscle. The bi/triceps should only be used at the moment of tenouchi, and only at that moment!