Three ways

Sunday's practice I wanted to show three ways to practice basic hitting.

We started this with suburi. Very often, if you watch suburi there's a
one, two; lift cut rythm to it. In fact, more effective is cutting 'ichi-byo'
one action from kamae to extension. So we forced the suburi to be
first consciously 2 actions, lift/cut to get timing correct, and then next
one action.

This carried over into our fumikomi practice... first seme, furikaburi, cut/step
and through. Then seme-cut-through in one action one thought.
Carrying through as well to nikyodo and sankyodo actions.

Now we put the men on and did everything as follows:

1. Timing: step, lift, cut...very basic and broken down.
2. One-action seme-cut-through turn and reset.
3. Stringing together (uchikomi) Seme-cut-through-turn-seme-cut-throug all with no breaks in breath, intent.. adding zanshin.
4. All sets of cuts strung together.

We did this for basics.. and then we did continuous feeling kiri-kaeshi with three consecutive motodachis.
Finally finishing off with about 12 min jigeiko.

The effort and intensity continues to roll on. Practice is very efficient and business like.
Everyone is steadily improving.