My muscles! My bruises! (sorry, this is a *really* long moan)

[enismirdal]

Nice to see Aikido buddies again. Several new hairstyles, several new injuries (both Aikido-related and otherwise).

Forgot that I've hardly trained since October, therefore had no qualms about putting myself through a series of stretches which felt fine at the time. Proceeded to take advanced breakfalls for something between 15 minutes and half an hour. Splat, splat, splat.

Today am a physical wreck. Every inch of me hurts. I'm walking around like I'm 80 years old.

Have now blu-tacced kiddie-style sign on bedroom door: "Home of the loony elf-fancier. No hobbits, dwarves or ents will be admitted." Sad, I know. But it made me happy. And has pictures of some gorgeous elves on it.

Woke up and went down to get food to find Mum had very kindly made me a job list. "Empty dishwasher" - empty the bloody dishwasher ('scuse my Orcish)! I haven't had to do one of them in 2 months! "But this isn't a hotel," she informed me. And you think my college room is?

Plus, the main home PC which controls the LAN is about to die, so I had to boot it off the backup disk just to get online so I could check mail. One of my mail accounts is having a temper tantrum so can't send anything through it - bad, as have 2 mails in queue and want to use that account for them.

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[senji.livejournal.com]

Could an Ent *fit* in your bedroom?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*considers this for a while*

Probably not. But I got home to find my brother had moved his yucca and swiss cheese plant into my room, and they're sort of like ents, I suppose...

[senji.livejournal.com]

Very small ents though.

[emperor]

Excuse me whilst I have congitive dissonance between that picture and you :p

[senji.livejournal.com]

*rotfls*

I don't know what that implies about *that* picture... (of yours)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

by 'you' do you mean me or senji? or both, plus ent? now that's a faintly disturbing image.

[anuanu.livejournal.com]

Proceeded to take advanced breakfalls for something between 15 minutes and half an hour. Splat, splat, splat.

God, I hate those. Someone shows you how to fall. Looks easy. Hah. First try, you jam your shoulder and neck. Get up, try again. The hand is supposed to smack the mat befoer you do, arm straight. Why isn't it that easy? *whap* Do it wrong again. Dang. Get up quick, the instructor's looking. *whap* Down again.

Next day: *waddle, limp, moan, groan, creak*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

They've started calling me "Suicide", with good reason. I just leap headfirst into them. Arm usually does not hit mat at all - which could explain bruises on back.

But hip-throws...heheheheh! Having extremely attractive black belt draped across ass...being draped across ass of extrememly attractive black belt...cannot complain.

[anuanu.livejournal.com]

Heh. They call me Buster, because I once busted a hole in the wall during testing. We were doing judo throws and my partner and I were too close to the wall. He threw me, and I left a dent in the wall. Oops. :D Another time during testing, I broke one of my instructor's noses with my ass during a maneuver. (I was doing it correctly. But again, oops.)

My fighting technique is to run away until I'm cornered, beat the shit out of my opponent, get them down, kick them, and run off. This behavior is encouraged. lol. :D It's been dubbed the 'pissy cat' routine.

Hey now, nothing beats that. How about being nose-to-crotch with one in a set of wrestling escape manuevers? Hee. *lipsmack*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

He threw me, and I left a dent in the wall.
Makes a change from the wall leaving a dent in you (which is what usually happens to me).

I broke my Sensei's toe in October. He walked into someone else's heel while we were training. I've never seen someone make so much fuss. For 2 weeks. He didn't forgive me for weeks after. But in summer he'd split my lip with a wooden sword, so I say we're even.

I thoroughly approve of the 'pissy cat' manoeuvre. Preferable to getting beaten to a pulp yourself.

How about being nose-to-crotch with one in a set of wrestling escape manuevers?
Bring 'em on! :D
Have you ever witnessed throws that go wrong and they end up landing doggy-style together? The strange thing was, I was the only one who seemed to find it funny...

[anuanu.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, what a wimp. Mine aren't that bad. One of them fell through a glass window and didn't even cry, and he's only 11. We breed 'em tough here, apparently.

Have you ever witnessed throws that go wrong and they end up landing doggy-style together? The strange thing was, I was the only one who seemed to find it funny...

Oh God, I do that too. I set the whole class off laughing, intructors included, once. Some chick and a guy were doing some kind of move, and they messed up and he would up sitting on her chest. Worse, to catch himself, he'd put his hands down on her breasts. Then, when they realized what happened, he tried to *lean forward* and *crawl off*, which resulted in his crotch being right on her face, instead of in front of it.

I started snickering, then the instructors started. We were all howling by the end. We still call her Miss 69, and him 'Teabag'.

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

I get shouted at (and end up oddly bruised) for *not* throwing myself at the mat hard enough.

(and mutter mutter tai otoshi mutter mutter ow, while we're on the subject of bruising)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

how does tai otoshi work? sounds like it ought to be concussion-producing.

I'm famous for my high-pitched piercing ki-ais which come out whenever I'm thrown harder or faster than expected. A sort of, "Eeeeeee!" I actually had one guy aiming for four squeaks out of me in four throws (he got two).

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Tai otoshi (as taught to us) is what you do if you aim for koshi garuma (which throw I really like, even if it is a bit impractical) and overshoot. You're standing in front of your victim, with your back to them and their right arm in both your hands (getting there is left as an exercise for the reader). Your left foot is further out than their left foot. You move your right foot out past their right foot, and turn it in towards your body (otherwise your knee will break messily in the next step - this way there's enough give that it doesn't). You then drop your body (hence the name), leaving your right shin roughly parallel to the ground at about the right height to trip your victim. In the same motion, you haul their arm across your body. They trip over your shin and hit the ground. Then you fall over on them, causing all kinds of damage. The last part isn't *meant* to happen, but it always seems to when I'm thrown.

Does it count as a kiai if you're being thrown?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Sounds pretty cool, and quite a manic breakfall.

Does it count as a kiai if you're being thrown?
Well, I typed 'kiai' into Google, and aside from getting a link to a site where some guy is using Aikido principles to teach golf (!) - complete with golf katas, there was this site, http://www.kbnet.co.uk/artemis/shorinji/essays/kiai/kiai.htm by whose definition, I think it probably is. It stops me getting winded, which as far as I'm concerned, is the main point :-)

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

It's actually pretty much the same to fall out of as koshi garuma - turn 180 degrees about your long axis, then a standard sideways breakfall. You do, however, hit the mat Really Quite Hard.

Golf kata? But, but, but... there's nothing there to base kata on. There's a swing, and a putting sort of action, both of which are done one at a time, with lots of off time between them.

Hmm. It's not a bad way to make sure you don't land with full lungs (which leaves me unable to breakfall properly anyway), but I'd always viewed a kiai as associated with a strike.