Une inspiration, pour la technique, mais surtout pour le seme.
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Originally Posted by ben
The first word Chiba sensei says is “ichibyoshi”, meaning the oji waza should be a single movement, lit. “in one breath”. IOW not to think of it as a block followed by a counter, but a single action, block and counter as one.
He also says each time you attempt it in training you should score ippon. Aim for 100% success in training.
He also spoke about the need for inducing the attack by your opponent, using seme. It’s case-by-case: sometimes your opponent will flinch from your seme, sometimes it will trigger their attack. He goes on to say that you can’t wait in kamae for the opponent’s attack, you step in with the right foot, a.k.a seme-ashi, inducing the opponent to come at you.
In this case, IIRC, the seme-ashi movement was also a training technique. When the person who was practising the oji waza took a step forward, their partner was to attack men or kote, depending on what the training focus was.
A couple of times he says things like, “So what do you think? You’ve seen it so now you can do it can’t you?” Everyone laughs because they all know that he makes it look easy. He’s quite a comedian with those eyebrows.
Nice to see it’s getting some views, and a link over on the BKA forum. It’s one of my favourite little vids.
b
PS - lifting the kensen as you step in will give your opponent kote ownership.
PPS - As part of a whole day, things like body language and repeated use of Japlish (”zenbu one-motion daiyo”) meant that those there got a better sense of it than from this vid. The purpose of the vid is not to learn from the verbal instruction, but to learn from Chiba sensei’s body movement and the sound of his fumikomi and tenouchi.
PPS - The translator is Yano sensei who passed his nanadan exam at the most recent shinsa in Tokyo. It was his first attempt.
http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19890
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