Videotaped
Today Sensei videotaped each of us as we went through our shinsa sets.
He said he will burn the videos to DVD and get them to us by Wednesday so that we can use them to refine our performances for the shinsa on the 13th.
He said he thought I would be happy with my video.
I thought I performed solidly today. No major snaffus such as getting the sageo stuck under the iaito during To Rei or missing the koiguchi on Noto.
The only thing I was unhappy with was that my attention actually wandered a bit during the performance. Specifically, as I finished one kata and was sitting in seiza before beginning the next, I caught myself thinking about what I had done right or wrong on the previous kata. Not a good idea. It's things like that which will get me to forget what kata I just finished when under the stress of testing.
Hopefully, I won't be appalled when I watch the video.
Sensei said that he would probably save himself some time and just burn all the videos to the same DVD rather than giving each of us a DVD with just our performance on it. I hope this is the case since that means I would have a video of one of our Nidan students performing the whole Lower Volume, two Sandan students performing Lower Volume and 5 kata from the upper volume and Sensei himself performing all the kata in the Upper and Lower Volumes.
This is what makes me think that we won't get videos of EVERYBODY's performance. The policy at TRI is to tightly control videos of our kata. That is why you don't find any authorized TRI videos on YouTube or online from official branches of TRI. Members aren't even allowed to own the DVD of Soke Sensei performing the kata until they reach the rank of Shodan. Which is actually too bad because I can't tell you the number of times I wanted to refer to such a video when I was unsure of how to perform a kata or when I had forgotten one of the moves in a kata I had just been taught.
If Sensei DOES give us a DVD with everyone's performance on it, that would be SWEET! I could brush up on the kata I do know and get an idea of the sequence of moves for the upper volume kata though I won't be taught those kata until I reach the rank of Sandan (which, at the rate I am progressing, will be YEARS from now).
He said he will burn the videos to DVD and get them to us by Wednesday so that we can use them to refine our performances for the shinsa on the 13th.
He said he thought I would be happy with my video.
I thought I performed solidly today. No major snaffus such as getting the sageo stuck under the iaito during To Rei or missing the koiguchi on Noto.
The only thing I was unhappy with was that my attention actually wandered a bit during the performance. Specifically, as I finished one kata and was sitting in seiza before beginning the next, I caught myself thinking about what I had done right or wrong on the previous kata. Not a good idea. It's things like that which will get me to forget what kata I just finished when under the stress of testing.
Hopefully, I won't be appalled when I watch the video.
Sensei said that he would probably save himself some time and just burn all the videos to the same DVD rather than giving each of us a DVD with just our performance on it. I hope this is the case since that means I would have a video of one of our Nidan students performing the whole Lower Volume, two Sandan students performing Lower Volume and 5 kata from the upper volume and Sensei himself performing all the kata in the Upper and Lower Volumes.
This is what makes me think that we won't get videos of EVERYBODY's performance. The policy at TRI is to tightly control videos of our kata. That is why you don't find any authorized TRI videos on YouTube or online from official branches of TRI. Members aren't even allowed to own the DVD of Soke Sensei performing the kata until they reach the rank of Shodan. Which is actually too bad because I can't tell you the number of times I wanted to refer to such a video when I was unsure of how to perform a kata or when I had forgotten one of the moves in a kata I had just been taught.
If Sensei DOES give us a DVD with everyone's performance on it, that would be SWEET! I could brush up on the kata I do know and get an idea of the sequence of moves for the upper volume kata though I won't be taught those kata until I reach the rank of Sandan (which, at the rate I am progressing, will be YEARS from now).