We started out by doing a few basics, but to spice it up I was instructed to do combos. Kick to block or kick to strike. That was fun and definitely warmed me up. For once I was looking pretty comfortable and managed to keep my balance most of the time. By the end I was getting shaky and I'm not totally sure why. I wasn't tired, but my balance was giving up and causing a cascade of errors.
We spend the rest of the class on Bassai. I imagine I'm over half way complete, but we went over my progress and cleaned up a few items and added a lot more steps. I'm remembering a lot more from the past which surprised me. It's probably been eight plus years since I did the TSD version and I only did a few times at Shudokan.
Since I've started with SBD, I've been commiserating with my old web cohort Bob Patterson. He's retired from Martial stuff for the time being, but remains a great source when referring from jumping from art to art. We have been going back and forth about requirements and I was expressing concern with breaking due to my lack of experience. I knew he did complicated kicks at one point and while we were talking about the different things he pointed out that he had to do a brick break! What!? They had concrete bricks and he went through it in one, but he said afterwards his forearm hurt for a week. I guess we know where the stress goes!
He said practice impact as much as you can. I got figure out how to do that!
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