{"id":747,"date":"2006-10-19T23:57:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/19\/more-training-needed-with-gradings-coming\/"},"modified":"2014-10-08T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:21:41","slug":"more-training-needed-with-gradings-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/19\/more-training-needed-with-gradings-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"More training needed with gradings coming…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Made it to the Honbu<\/a> today for the first time in a while. I really need to train more – have a Judo competition on Monday night (would be Saturday, but I have the LA<\/a> face2face, so I’m going to the alternate).<\/p>\n

The good thing about training on Thursday evenings is that there tends to be a lot of people on the mat – often more than at any other time. A lot of black belts show up too… some I don’t see too often (but that could be due to me generally not training as much this year).<\/p>\n

At the end of November is gradings… so better be prepared. That, and I need to build up some fitness again.<\/p>\n

Didn’t stay for the Sword class though, was quite knackered after the 1.5hrs of jiujitsu (well… more Judo style today). The class was good too – Kancho<\/a> was on the mat and doing things for a while.<\/p>\n

I feel I fixed some problems with my 5th and 6th hip throws today (or at least learnt where I tend to go wrong). My 5th leg still isn’t the best… but practice, practice. I think it’s more a consistency issue – sometimes I can just hammer in for the hip throws and execute them beautifully (at least for my grade…. nothing like a 3rd, 4th, 6th or 10th Dan or so throwing you around for a bit to see how far you can still go).<\/p>\n

I totally vote we open a Melbourne MySQL office right near there (which is actually further from home for me.. which would be rather annoying, but means I could train every day :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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