Jake and I practiced alone and we worked on the following techniques:
- yokomenuchi and shomenuchi sankyo omote and ura
- yokomenuchi and shomenuchi yonkyo omote
- tsuki kotegaeshi
- tsuki sankyo
We then did some free-style practice where nage closed his eyes and uke first attacked 8 times with any grab attack and nage could do any technique. The second round we worked on yokomenuchi and shomenuchi strikes. The final round were ushiro attacks by uke with nage still keeping his eyes shut. This training forces me to extend my focus not through my eyes but on other senses. Only a couple of times in all of the times I was attacked with my eyes closed, did I feel connected enough and kinda of "knew" where the attack was coming and my body responded with the techniques. Another aspect of these training Jake and I discussed was after we made contact with uke, the muscle memory and the technique was automatic, even without visual cues.
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