The person that makes the killing strike is called Shikata
The person that dies is the teacher and is called Uchikata
Mokuju versus Mokuju is started 9 steps apart
The three heart targets are Omote, Ura and Shita
- Omote: Strike arrives from the recipients right hand side of their mokuju
- Ura: Strike arrives from the recipients left hand side of their mokuju over their arm
- Shita: Strike arrives from the recipients left hand side of their mokuju under their arm
- Starting from Chudan
- 3 steps each to issoku itonomai (ten cm overlap of mokuju)
- Uchi tenses as if to strike this makes a teeny tiny opening to Omote. This movement is almost imperceptible. Do it by tensing hand muscles more than anything else.
- Immediately Shi uses the opening to strike Omote.
- Zanshin starts with a large step back by Shi, mokuju should clear each other by about 5cm
- Zanshin is completed with a covering of Uchi's front kote.
- Uchi starts moving back to issoku in chudan and Shi follows
- Any steps required to return to centre are performed by both (normally 3 tiny steps)
- Both lower the mokuju to Geidan
- Both do 5 small steps back to the starting spot
- Return to chudan
What we did wrong (an incomplete list)
- My hanmi is bad the whole way through
- My front hand is wrong
- I didn't make the opening
- Ewa's strike was too far from my heart, it should almost touch
- Ewa's mokuju bounced around during the step back to zanshin
- Zanshin was not deliberate and not at the kote, it was just a general movement sort of in my direction
- We didn't correct distance at the end before lowering the mokuju
- Lowering was about 75% too quick.
- Walking backwards I am not smooth
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