Thursday night was organised chaos - twenty plus people in the tiny room because the footballers were in upstairs, across around 7 grades including some on their first lesson. But actually I think between us we managed to keep all the plates spinning, although those doing the weapons forms had to work on something else because there was definitely no room for swinging bokkens or poles. Afterwards went through bokken vs pole a few times, then off to tai chi. Worked through a bit more of the straight sword, clarifying a few things for me but there's still a sketchy section I need to consolidate a bit more. Then the first few moves of the pole set I learnt at a seminar about 3 years ago and have hardly practised since. Again since there was so little room in the hall we ended up practising one at a time while the others watched and offered criticisms - no pressure there then!
Saturday 21 November 2009
Packing them in
Thursday night was organised chaos - twenty plus people in the tiny room because the footballers were in upstairs, across around 7 grades including some on their first lesson. But actually I think between us we managed to keep all the plates spinning, although those doing the weapons forms had to work on something else because there was definitely no room for swinging bokkens or poles. Afterwards went through bokken vs pole a few times, then off to tai chi. Worked through a bit more of the straight sword, clarifying a few things for me but there's still a sketchy section I need to consolidate a bit more. Then the first few moves of the pole set I learnt at a seminar about 3 years ago and have hardly practised since. Again since there was so little room in the hall we ended up practising one at a time while the others watched and offered criticisms - no pressure there then!
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