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darren_strangerThree days to go until grading day.
I'm really looking forward to it now and a lot more confident about what i'm doing. Self defence was my biggest concern - i'd spent so long teaching basic skills that i didn't think i would remember how to do any of the fancy-schmancy stuff. But once we started working together it came back quite quickly and i spent a lot of time saying "hey, i do know how to do this". Seems Barry was right.
This week has seen a bit more intensive training, doing sessions alomost every day, nights and/or mornings, and shifting around from Camberwell to Boronia to Eltham to Glen Waverley. This morning i was up at 4.45 to head out to Boronia for a 6.30 session, then we're back there again tonight after work. Getting in front of the Bosses has been really good too, having some very experienced eyes checking out what we're up to. Yesterday morning Greg picked out one thing i was trying and said "you don't look comfortable with that - if it doesn't feel natural, try something else", which i did and found it works for me much better. I still want to spend more time practising these things so they can become second nature, as i have a tendency to go blank in an emergency situation, which could be disastrous if i ever did have to defend myself, but that's something to work on in the future.
Tonight we'll start working on the creative 'freestyle' self defence scenarios. The current plan is to have a free-flowing sequence, where we switch from defenders to attackers and back, and when any of us disarm someone we then use the weapon and become the aggressor. I'm not sure i'm entirely comfortable with that idea, as with five of us all going at it at once it could look like an all-in brawl, which is not a good look at the best of times, let alone this week with the riots in Cronulla. It'll need to be staged in such a way that it's clear that we're changing roles of attacker and defender, not advocating taking a weapon off someone and then attacking them with it.
But overall it's going well and i'm really looking forward to Sunday.
After that, a bit of a rest will be just the trick, and a chance to catch up on other things.
I'm really looking forward to it now and a lot more confident about what i'm doing. Self defence was my biggest concern - i'd spent so long teaching basic skills that i didn't think i would remember how to do any of the fancy-schmancy stuff. But once we started working together it came back quite quickly and i spent a lot of time saying "hey, i do know how to do this". Seems Barry was right.
This week has seen a bit more intensive training, doing sessions alomost every day, nights and/or mornings, and shifting around from Camberwell to Boronia to Eltham to Glen Waverley. This morning i was up at 4.45 to head out to Boronia for a 6.30 session, then we're back there again tonight after work. Getting in front of the Bosses has been really good too, having some very experienced eyes checking out what we're up to. Yesterday morning Greg picked out one thing i was trying and said "you don't look comfortable with that - if it doesn't feel natural, try something else", which i did and found it works for me much better. I still want to spend more time practising these things so they can become second nature, as i have a tendency to go blank in an emergency situation, which could be disastrous if i ever did have to defend myself, but that's something to work on in the future.
Tonight we'll start working on the creative 'freestyle' self defence scenarios. The current plan is to have a free-flowing sequence, where we switch from defenders to attackers and back, and when any of us disarm someone we then use the weapon and become the aggressor. I'm not sure i'm entirely comfortable with that idea, as with five of us all going at it at once it could look like an all-in brawl, which is not a good look at the best of times, let alone this week with the riots in Cronulla. It'll need to be staged in such a way that it's clear that we're changing roles of attacker and defender, not advocating taking a weapon off someone and then attacking them with it.
But overall it's going well and i'm really looking forward to Sunday.
After that, a bit of a rest will be just the trick, and a chance to catch up on other things.
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Date: 2005-12-14 11:19 pm (UTC)Stay focused
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Date: 2005-12-14 11:29 pm (UTC)Thanks.
Best part is that i've come from dreading and not wanting to do this to really enjoying it.
Bring on Sunday!
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Date: 2005-12-14 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-15 12:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-15 02:17 am (UTC)Thanks, will do. :)
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Date: 2005-12-15 02:29 am (UTC)pip pip
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Date: 2005-12-15 02:33 am (UTC)Cheers, guv.
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Date: 2005-12-15 03:05 am (UTC)