Did a proper jo (staff) workout with Hoshina-san. She ran me through all the basics and the we started really drilling on the first several kata.
Kin-san (the other Tanaka-sensei) was there, and being as he's The Man, he showed me some finer points, including whacking me in the stomach and solar plexus repeatedly. Over and over. Again and again.
Needless to say, I am beginning to rethink my habit is sitting right up with the edge of my desk jammed into my gut. It hurts.
But jo is tons of fun, so from now on I'll probably help Hoshina-san teach sword on Wednesdays, and then after that 2 hour practice we'll hang out for an extra hour and do jo. Anyway I have less than a month to get to the point where I can act as Niina-gosoke's partner when he teaches at the seminar in LA, and both Hoshina-san and Kin-san's comments were along the lines of "You do it like that with Niina-gosoke and he'll take your arm clean off..." so I gotta get in gear asap.
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