For a warm up, we did rolls, then dive rolls. Although rolls are BY FAR my least favorite thing to do, I must say I did quite well on my dive rolls, which made me pretty happy since my grandparents came and watched.
Once we finished practicing rolls, we quickly were told to get long bo's or the roku shaku bo's, roku shaku translating 6 feet. We started off by practicing downward strikes with the bo, starting in seigan no kamae, or “in-between the eyes” stance, sliding the bo behind us, and lifting it over our shoulders and pulling down with the hand at the end of the bo.
We then worked on hane age,or lifting of the cuffs, which slides the bo back, but pulls it the opposite way and strikes to the leg or cuff.
After getting familiar with the bo, we partnered up and started doing ashi barai, or cutting sweep. In my academy's version of ashi barai, we practice hitting with the same end of the bo each time. We start in seigan no kamae, sliding the bow back behind us like in the practices we did before partnering up. Bringing the left hand, or whichever hand is in front, around to the other hip, switching our legs as well, both people hit with the ends of their bo.
The technique we do however so that we hit with the same end each time is, once the left hand is on our hips, we move it down to about half way down the bo and slide both hands up, so that the right hand is up-top. We then do the same as before only on the opposite side. We did this a couple of times, switching partners, until almost the end.
When it was 5 minutes until the end of class, the teacher told us to come up front as we practiced different bo kamae. The first posture, hira ichimonji no kamae, has the arms shoulder-width apart, the bo held directly in front of the person.
The second posture we did, dai jodan no kamae, or literally “very upper level posture.” In Dai jodan no kamae, the leading arm is pointing forward, the hand just lower than the person's chin. The bo rests on the rear hand, which is right above the person's head and the leading hand pointing outward.
The next posture we did was chudan no kamae, or middle posture. As its name says, Chudan no kamae is done with the bo completely straight, the back arm resting on the bo. The fourth posture, seigan no kamae, is our school's “trademark kamae.” Seigan no kamae, with tbe bo, has the bo pointing in between the opponent's eyes, the weight distribution with the legs about 70/30. The final kamae we did was gedan no kamae, or low posture. Gedan is much like seigan only, instead of pointing toward the person, the bo is slid back and hidden behind the rear leg.
Well that's it for now. I'm going to karate tomorrow as well so I'll update you as soon as I get back from it.
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