- Both sides start in chudan.
- Shi takes 3 steps
- Uchi takes 2.5
- Should be at tomai about 10 cm space between mokuju
- Shi applies seme to omote, small step, slight lowering of centre of gravity
- Should now be close to issoku ito no mai
- As shi applies pressure uchi reacts with a teeny tiny covering of omote
- This pushes shi's mokuju off centre as it slides down uchi's mokuju
- Shi maintains the straight and direct thrust but goes under uchi's mokuju and strikes ura
- 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
- Steps will be required to return to centre, 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
Important points:
- 2.5 steps is 2 normal size steps followed by a half size step, do not just break the distance down into 3 even size steps.
- Shi doesn't make a big drop under the mokuju, the strike should be basically the same as a strike to omote, it just happens to be swept off course a bit by uchi. Maybe a centimetre off course.
- Uchi making the covering movement opens ura, the movement of the front hand covering only needs to be large enough to open ura and this is invariably less than what you think is needed
- My covering was robotic and probably too big
- Ewa dropped her mokuju underneath mine rather than sliding it straight
- Ewa strike, kiai and feet are all separate, they should be at the same time
- Returning to chudan I make a big sweeping deal out of it using my front hand rather than back hand
- When dropping the point down we are out of time and different heights
- We both lean forward before moving backwards
- On the way back I am bouncing and Ewa's mokuju gets higher
- We return to chudan out of sync
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