I missed two posts: Sunday Kendo and Monday Kyudo. And then I must add tonight's practice too.

Sunday is blurry, but it was hot, and as I recall pretty no-nonsense: the dreaded SAR drills during ashisabaki, followed immediately by infinite-kirikaeshi, which is like regular kirikaeshi except you keep going on each of the two cycles until Sensei feels like hitting the blocks. After that it was straight into several types of kakarigeiko: i forget exactly, but probably the normal type. I went up against a handful of sensei and they had helpful advice, and deadly taiatari and tsuki: keep center better--I tend to go overboard in issoku, hit smaller!

Kyudo was interesting, to see the coordinated practice against makiwara. I already have bad habits, though I've fixed most of my nocking problems: in dozukuri I need to better move everything in front--in yumigamae I need to not move my shoulders, which tend to turn too much, and when I bring might right hand back in should be in more of a rounded motion, rather than straight diagonally down--over the head, behind the ear!!

But I think that kyudo may have helped my tsuki-waza, which I managed to land 9/9 today in kihon-keiko. Still too tense after, but both the A/C and the more relaxed pace with a focus on kihongeiko was appreciated, despite multiple shinai-failures.