241: Saturday 11:30 : August 19, 2006

Kokusai Class: Jiyuwaza

Basic:
Hiriki no Yosei-1 & 2

Flip Practice with mats

Technique:

IN: Shomen Uchi Ikkajo Nage
OUT:Shomen Uchi Sankajo Nage
IN: Shomen Uchi Shihonage
OUT:Shomen Uchi Kokyunage (Sumi Otoshi)
IN: Shomen Uchi Hijiate Kokyunage
OUT:Shomen Uchi Kotegaeshi

Note:
Class of 20ish. Jiyuwaza after 2 months was tough in many ways...

Its not like I could not get what I was supposed to do in these Jiyuwaza (except for Kotegaeshi, I'm really bad at it) Its mainly because my body did not remember how to "flip". Still. I was OK for flipping up but to land...so I did not miss going up in the air but did not have a clue how to land when I got up in the air, then I kept splatting my body onto the mat which was very hard to come up back on my feet and also embarrassing...

As a result, I ended up having nasty scratches right beside my elbows for hitting the mat.

I think I lost all my natural flipping movement (I still did not have the way 2 months ago, I even lost what I had then), and not having a way to come up only encouraged me to run out even faster... it was very very hard to go through all patterns as it got added each time until it went up to all 6.

Even though, going back to Kokusai class after 2 months was very fun. We had to go through all 6 patterns in front of everybody at the end. I somehow managed it without making any major mistakes (except for Kotegaeshi) : )