Rolls and jumps
Hey All,
Today we mostly went over rolls and falls. As all martial artists I’ve met try not to brain themselves on the floor, it if important for all levels of people to know how to break a fall. We three started today with basic forward rolls across our new mats, then Nicole (with her Mixed Martial Arts, Taekwondo and Hapkido experience) decided that, since it was her day to teach, we wold work on some obstacle rolling. We piled up mats on top of our other mats and jumped and rolled over them. Then we tried for more height, then more distance. The general value of this kind of training is it forces us blackbelts to think outside of our normal routine rolls to bring in other situations. We won’t always have a clear and open space to fight in, and having confidence in our abilities to fall and roll safely in a variety of circumstances is beneficial. We then worked on falling after throws–remarkable similar to rolling after clearing an obstacle. We did some throws which everyone knows by different names (hirigosh and ogosh I have learned both in Karate (the first is the throw used for the Oyo Bunkai for Kosokundai) and some take-downs which were surprisingly style specific. We ended the class with some non-martial arts related exercises, which have more to do with wanting to be fit than traditional Shito-Ryu Karate Do or Taekwondo. It was a good practice and tons of fun!
Post by Jessica Dickinson Goodman
