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iai - Pretty good session last night. I ended up as senior student, as W was trapped at a birthday party. The new kid is back from vacation, and K came back from France, so there was a situation needing lots of basics. I got to work on some advanced stuff, and some basics, and all in all it was a pretty good night for training. I'm feeling like I'm at the point with most of Omori ryu that I can both do them and think about how I'm doing them - adjust on the fly -at the same time. Hmm.
Otherwise, the internal posture things I'm working on for naginata are only helping my iai. That, and the whole intent thing.
judo - A wash this week. I saw no point in staying on Tuesday as there was no one who showed up to practice with, and I'm just sick to death of the whole "OK, take a partner . . ." and me not having a partner.
This is in large part me. I really don't have the energy after a day of work for yet more social negotiation. And I'm kind of in limbo: I'm not a beginner anymore who needs hand-holding and excessive guidance. Yet I don't have/have never had the same opportunities or direction for development. Right now it's mostly lose-lose, and I don't know what to do except keep it from turning into a psychological sucking chest wound.
naginata - Some really good stuff to work on from Sunday, which was the first of what will be three weeks in a row of training. Also some good observations from the USNF seminar last weekend, at which I only watched while Mini-me participated (and I fielded numerous questions about why I was not training!). Also received big hug from Yamauchi Sensei.
work - short-staffed + vacations make me glad I'm going on my own vacation in two days.
family - hey. Heading up to Maine next week.
school - still plugging along.
reading - Still pecking at All the Windwracked Stars.
writing - My writer-brain is like Humpback whales at dawn in a mirror-smooth foggy inlet. You can hear them, out there. Somewhere. Every once in a while one will break the surface, a dark gliding hulk you didn't notice beside you until it shatters the quiet with a cavernous blow.
Then, gone. But still there, under the surface.
Which is to say I found a plot relevance link at some point yesterday. But now I can't remember what it was.
Learning Japanese - etiquette for bowing out of macho kihon in a room full of guys when you're coming back from an injury.
Otherwise, the internal posture things I'm working on for naginata are only helping my iai. That, and the whole intent thing.
judo - A wash this week. I saw no point in staying on Tuesday as there was no one who showed up to practice with, and I'm just sick to death of the whole "OK, take a partner . . ." and me not having a partner.
This is in large part me. I really don't have the energy after a day of work for yet more social negotiation. And I'm kind of in limbo: I'm not a beginner anymore who needs hand-holding and excessive guidance. Yet I don't have/have never had the same opportunities or direction for development. Right now it's mostly lose-lose, and I don't know what to do except keep it from turning into a psychological sucking chest wound.
naginata - Some really good stuff to work on from Sunday, which was the first of what will be three weeks in a row of training. Also some good observations from the USNF seminar last weekend, at which I only watched while Mini-me participated (and I fielded numerous questions about why I was not training!). Also received big hug from Yamauchi Sensei.
work - short-staffed + vacations make me glad I'm going on my own vacation in two days.
family - hey. Heading up to Maine next week.
school - still plugging along.
reading - Still pecking at All the Windwracked Stars.
writing - My writer-brain is like Humpback whales at dawn in a mirror-smooth foggy inlet. You can hear them, out there. Somewhere. Every once in a while one will break the surface, a dark gliding hulk you didn't notice beside you until it shatters the quiet with a cavernous blow.
Then, gone. But still there, under the surface.
Which is to say I found a plot relevance link at some point yesterday. But now I can't remember what it was.
Learning Japanese - etiquette for bowing out of macho kihon in a room full of guys when you're coming back from an injury.