I’m not sure when this occurred, but Teacher is giving me more and more responsibility in class and I’m not really sure I’m ready. For instance, last night we broke up in to two groups and he assigned me one group to work on really basic grab and throw. Since the group is made up of folks with varying skill levels and physical aptitudes, I was stuck in the predicament of explaining basic engagement with Uke and Tori. Even though we were doing monkey-in-the-middle type practice they plainly weren’t getting the idea that they needed to face the Tori one at a time. Instead I got a cluster*#!$ of people attacking from the rear to tapping Tori on the shoulder. Jeeze!
After we got that sorted out Teacher came over to my group to see how we’d faired. I was sort of nervous because I didn’t think we doing that well, but he seemed happy in that we were jerking each other off our feet with a minimum of effort – a good measure of success.
After break we worked on refining that grab and tossing people around. At the very end of class he demoed with me and as usual my shoulders and knees were telling a tale of woe when I got home. The joy!
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