Post by kensei on Jan 14, 2011 19:29:09 GMT
Last night I had the first class in the new club and as my instructor was a tad late....seeing as we had a snow storm...I stated class. Most of the students were brown belts or black belts and we were working on simply warming up with punching...nothing fancy just getting the cold out of our bones and working on vibration ext.
I was asking them to first just punch with out vibration, just the arm and push into the floor a tad, nothing fancy again...just straighten your arm into a punch while pulling the other back.
Once we started to get going I tried to get them to snap their arm out more and not push so much, use vibration and relax.
I started to notice how little some people have control...of their own bodies...Thankfully they had control over some areas...messy it would be if they did not. But hips and shoulders and head were wiggling away and the truth was that they were more rotating into a technique then they were punching and vibrating the hips.
I demonstrated how you can vibrate and even rotate the hips somewhat with out throwing their shoulders about....the spine is made up of INDIVIDUAL bones...not a solid beam...well for the most of us
The head has the same bone structure as exists between the pelvic girdle and the bones of the upper torso...so why then is the head being flailed about?
I find it interesting watching bad habits of others, it makes me more self awair of my own issues and go home and work on them. One other habbit I noticed and tried to correct was leaving your head behind when moving backwards, thus the butt sticks out and the head moves into the attack, and the hips being left behind when moving in, thus again head into the attacker and butt sticking out. Swaying when moving is another issue. We still teach juniors to move with a cresent path of their feet...I am kind of getting away from that myself and more looking at "scissor" your legs but not to much...I find the cresent walking (Called Hangetsu walking by Yaguchi Sensei years ago) tends to get the students whole body swaying with the foot when they step in.
these habits and alot more are all body control issues...comments? ;D
I was asking them to first just punch with out vibration, just the arm and push into the floor a tad, nothing fancy again...just straighten your arm into a punch while pulling the other back.
Once we started to get going I tried to get them to snap their arm out more and not push so much, use vibration and relax.
I started to notice how little some people have control...of their own bodies...Thankfully they had control over some areas...messy it would be if they did not. But hips and shoulders and head were wiggling away and the truth was that they were more rotating into a technique then they were punching and vibrating the hips.
I demonstrated how you can vibrate and even rotate the hips somewhat with out throwing their shoulders about....the spine is made up of INDIVIDUAL bones...not a solid beam...well for the most of us
The head has the same bone structure as exists between the pelvic girdle and the bones of the upper torso...so why then is the head being flailed about?
I find it interesting watching bad habits of others, it makes me more self awair of my own issues and go home and work on them. One other habbit I noticed and tried to correct was leaving your head behind when moving backwards, thus the butt sticks out and the head moves into the attack, and the hips being left behind when moving in, thus again head into the attacker and butt sticking out. Swaying when moving is another issue. We still teach juniors to move with a cresent path of their feet...I am kind of getting away from that myself and more looking at "scissor" your legs but not to much...I find the cresent walking (Called Hangetsu walking by Yaguchi Sensei years ago) tends to get the students whole body swaying with the foot when they step in.
these habits and alot more are all body control issues...comments? ;D