Saturday Training
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Last week my teacher told me that the biggest problem in my training at this point is my rolls.
Today, when I came to class I found out that there were no other students besides myself. My teacher, Tom Hilliard, told me that today we were going to do nothing else but work on my rolls. I was thrilled! Wow! What a gift! Full attention and focus on my weakness for a full class! What a fantastic gift!
We started out by doing forward rolls slowly as he critiqued and instructed me on how to improve and change what was wrong. We did these for quite a while. Next, I did backward rolls and after he watched me carefully he found where I was making my biggest mistake and easily corrected me. It was as simple as starting my rolls in a wider kamae. AWESOME!
Next, he told me that in order to learn to roll I need to learn when to roll. He told me that I was going to be Uke for the day. 
He threw me using Ura and I did pretty well. When he threw me using Omote, I kind of freaked out. I have some sort of fear of ukemi with Omote. We worked on this for a couple of hours.
I am very grateful for this class. I have a good teacher.
