Today Sensei was out, and visiting-Sunday Sensei was the most senior, and I was feeling my years and the heat after not too long at all, but that is to be expected after a few weeks of once-weekly attendance. General attendance, however, has been pretty amazingly high of late, I'd say: lots of new-bogu'd folks as well as unranked beginners, and that's all before the new school year has even started. It's interesting to look at them for flaws (while not seeing my own), but at the same time admiring their dedication.

The actual practice today focused first only on kihon-uchi: ashisabaki, kirikaeshi, men, kote, kote-men, do, kote-do, men-taiatari-hiki-men, and then uchikomi. The waza-geiko was varied: debana-men, degote, kote-suriage-men, and the still-difficult kote-ojigaeshi-men, followed by kakarigeiko, which I did not like as much as I thought I would.

In practice, I should have sought out more Sensei, but instead fought a few sempai and then it was all kohai. Still hard to deal with kohai, I think...