Managed somehow to get up early and went to Kiyokawa-kun's class. It was me and all the college students; Iwata-chan, Misawa-kun, and Wakabayashi-kun.
Kiyokawa-kun is serious about iai; all he does all day every day is practice, and when he's not practicing, he's thinking about practice. It shows: he's damn good.
My biggest problem is I have too much arm strength, and end up using that instead of letting my hips do the work. Also, my stepping is too shallow; I'm trying to keep from over-reaching with my upper body, but the result is I don't step deep enough now.
It's fun to really get into tai-sabaki, the body mechanics of how to effectively use the hips to drive the sword. Too bad I suck at it.
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