Breaking the Bottle
Started conditioning my hands and working on chop speed, so that I may break a whiskey bottle with a knife hand in about a month or two.
So far the training's going well.
I still need to work on consistent speed and relaxation of the arm. Visualizing my arm as a whip actually helps with speed on the outward chop, but the inward chop is different. the curve is a lot smaller. I have to pretend my arm is more of a blade in a swift arc.
I'm using a candle to work on speed training. I gradually move farther away from the candle as my hand speed increases and I'm able to put out the flame consistently.
For hand conditioning, I'm using 2X4 pinewood blocks I bought from Lowes. That's going well, tool. Figured I'might as well condition my knuckles while I was at it, so I'm doing that, too.
I also just started to use the shinai for sword control training on the wood blocks, as well.
That's going to take a lot more practice...
So far the training's going well.
I still need to work on consistent speed and relaxation of the arm. Visualizing my arm as a whip actually helps with speed on the outward chop, but the inward chop is different. the curve is a lot smaller. I have to pretend my arm is more of a blade in a swift arc.
I'm using a candle to work on speed training. I gradually move farther away from the candle as my hand speed increases and I'm able to put out the flame consistently.
For hand conditioning, I'm using 2X4 pinewood blocks I bought from Lowes. That's going well, tool. Figured I'might as well condition my knuckles while I was at it, so I'm doing that, too.
I also just started to use the shinai for sword control training on the wood blocks, as well.
That's going to take a lot more practice...