Teacher Tuesday.

I ate well throughout the day to keep my energy up in anticipation of going full steam in class later. I got to class early and practiced a bit with the sword. I practiced the sheath and my form. It’s amazing how quickly swinging the sword around warms up the body. The one black belt candidate joined me in the kata to make sure he knows the moves for the 10^th.

We started with the plank, then some sit-ups and then we did some devastators. I enjoyed them and felt good and ready for more intense training. We partnered up and did a bit of bag work with some combinations. The sensei split the class up in levels and asked me to train the juniors in 8^th Kyu. My friend suggested I take the syllabus book and off we went.

8^th kyu in Ninjutsu trains the student all the strikes and all the kicks. It is the second level in NinjaSA and forms the basis for all attacks. I decided to partner the students up with one of them holding the bag while the other did the strike five times. They would then swop and the other partner would then do the strike. I elaborated on the target areas before we went into the detail of each strike and kick. Some of the strikes I asked the students to do off the bag as the body provides a more realistic target.  I enjoyed teaching the students, for its only through teaching something that one truly learns the finer detail.

It was a good class. I had one of the students partner with me and had him strike the bag without swopping. I got good body conditioning and he got a very good work out. We greeted and went on our separate ways.

Embrace the shadows.