Inertia

One of the fundamental ideas in taijutsu practice is to take it slowly and build the muscle memory, and only speed up later. However, there is an area where it's not practical to slow down as far as we do elsewhere: ukemi, or rolling and falling. At some point, when you roll, you have to do two things at once while moving. That is because your own inertia is part of the technique.

Still, you can break it down to elements, and practice that way. Also, some rolls are simpler than others.

We went out to the park today and rolled to our heart's content on the grass. Usually at this time of year, Fudou Myou migrates indoor. But the weather was great, the grass was dry (mostly).

New Dojo

Very nice. Fudo Myou relocated and it's shiny.

Exciting changes are coming

I thought to try and spring a surprise, but Shihan posted an update to our Facebook page, so the cat is out of the bag: Fudo Myou dojo is moving to a new location. Hours and contact information remains the same (find them on the website). We remain in town, and with Albuquerque being a sizeable city, the new place still a leased office. It would be cool to have a plot of land with a training hall and area for outdoor activities, such as sword practice. In a typical training room, I'm liable to hit the ceiling with a bo. Our old place had exposed day light tubes along the ceiling and bofuri required unyielding vigilance there.