Cool stuff I learned this week

[sensei8]

Now you’re talking!! Great help for both you and Zach.

Nothing more exciting than having a guest instructor of that caliber on the floor.

He definitely ran you all through the paces from A to Z and back. That’s my type of training…hit them hard and shake them up with no- nonsense training. I bet everyone one the floor was drenched in sweat from head to toe.

An old Okinawa saying that my Sensei always reminded us often…

“Minai chichi nai. - We learn by watching and listening!!” You both did just that.

[bushido_man96]

That's an awesome training experience, @aurik.  You are right about doing the same things from someone else's perspective; it helps you to see the same things in a different light and brings on new thoughts and methods of doing things.  Sometimes you don't need to learn something different, just the same thing differently, to open avenues of growth.

It's really cool how he pulled Zach aside to work with him.  Awesome for him.

[aurik]

So I saw Ian yesterday at his dan grading (he was grading for nidan).  I asked him about that sokusen geri -- the third time, Gushi sensei hit him hard.  Of course, Ian, being the good Uechi Ryu karateka he is, kept a stolid face.  Gushi leaned in and whispered, "That hurt, didn't it?"  He definitely nodded.  It turns out he had a bruise on that thigh visible from across the room (his mom noticed too.)  Fortunately being the young guy he is, he recovered in a few days.