Tuesday- weapons

Teaching:Miguel

Practiced with: new Chris

We used a bokken and practiced a lot of saburi. Some of the cuts where done with the opposite foot and were ones that I had never done before. We then practiced keeping a connection with each other's blades and pushing each other back and forth across the mat. It was exhausting. But I really worked to lower my shoulders and engage my center and it started to work. There were a few exchanges where I could really feel how Miguel was moving his sword from my center and all the way into my back foot. It was a spooky, integrated feeling. Very alien, and intimate, but good. Between this and some advances I have made in yoga, I felt that this was a very good day.