One of several of the warm-up exercises in this Judo school is to bash your partner into your chest twenty times. This is achieved by heaving the person's body into yours. The impact is further strengthened by a lurch back, followed by a step forward and a mock leg-sweep, at the same time jutting your upper body outward as you pull in. In effect, it shifts the person's weight back and forth, so they never really stand balanced, and creates quite an impact.
Then you switch and they bash you for a while. I think I've got to build up more resistence in the, uhh, chest. They bash me twenty times before I can blink, and then it's my turn and I turn out about five half-bashes before it's time to switch again.
I'm loving this. Somehow, it appeals to my feminine nature.
Really, though, I think it is going to be a great way to create a good relationship with the kids, and it's good for me to feel useful, even if it's only as a sack of potatoes for now. Come to think of it, my job is an awful lot like being a sack of potatoes anyway. At least now, I'm a Useful Sack of Potatoes.
I tell of my day-to-day experiences in a funky Japanese town from my American viewpoint. This blog could also be called 'Bizarro World', 'Notes From Kyushu, a Smaller Island', or 'Teaching English in Japan: Smash Your Ego in 10 Easy Lessons."
Saturday, May 28, 2005
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3 comments:
ow! (>_<) at least kyudo isn't sooooo painful, well, it really can be, but that's another story... It is sooooo cool that you are doing judo.(^.^)The judo practice area was near the kyudo range and I would watch sometimes and also would run into the really buff judo girls who were around school and who would generally scare me! (>o<;) Doing a club is a really a good way to bond with kids because everybody sees you have the dedication and desire to do something just the same as everyone else, which is neat, I guess. I didn't realize this until I got home and a friend e-mailed me that the next exchange student was thinking about joining archery but that I had become kind of a legend and she was intimidated by that. I got a lot of respect for simply trying hard to be like everybody else. wow, that was a long rant, sorry! well, then, Good luck with the chest bashing, sounds, um, interesting...Katie (*^o^*)/~~
Why did the Judo girls scare you?
humm...why did the judo girls scare me, well, they weren't really too scary (I mean that more in an "they were buff and itimidating way, sorry), but they would glare at all the kyudo kids,especially me when I was tryin to watch their practices. I got stared at a lot by them, even after I had been around for months and had been near the judo area, and that made me more uncomforable, which was a little fear inducing, 'cause I felt like they did not want me there, like I was imposing on their traditional sports vibe, I dunno, wasn't that bad. sorry, scary was a little harsh, but I meant it more as they were intimidating. okay, yeah...bye
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