Most of us in the class have a few gis. I bought a second one because I only do laundry once a week if can I help it, but some of the folks have been in martial arts forever so have quite the collection. Teacher is no exception to this rule. Last night he was in a rather smart black Chinese style uniform. Black with white cuffs and white frog closures. What I hadn’t realized was that meant he was going to use that as a focus.
Immediately after warm-ups we went into a technique that required us pass a punch into the armpit where it was clamped between the arm and side. The we’d rotate around, doing a nice elbow lock across the back and swinging our spare arm to clamp across the neck doing a choke. You had to be relaxed and you couldn’t drag your Uke around or you’d never get the neck choke. Fun and furious.
Height was a good thing to practice around. If you had a significant height difference it became a challenge. If you couldn’t get your arm around the elbow made a nice home in Uke’s ear. Still effective.
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This was Teacher’s last night for a month so he left at half time to get ready for his trip overseas. I didn’t have a specific plan in mind so I focused on kicking and kicking combos. I ended up doing focus pad drills and finished the last five minutes on stretching. I know the older guys appreciated that.
Next time I’ll continue with kicking, but have pads for three people so the “monkey in the middle” will get to work with multiple attacks.
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