Forecast

Hopefully we practice some of these eventually...

Standing posture:
- heels up (but only just - lift 'paper-thin' off the floor)
- form straight line on the front side of the body when viewed from a side
- chin tucked in
- don't lean forward nor backward

Kendo footwork (okuri-ashi):
- emphasis on the kneecaps
- keep the eye-level stable, don't bob your body, it's more of a stable horizontal/sliding movement. (think of a walking race. Their heads don't go up n' down while they wiggle away.)

Turn foot work (with shinai):
- efficient use of time & space in combating situation

Cut-n-land:
Pair-up > super-slow big Men on shinai > land 

[Transition from previous disconnected step-by-step movements to more integrated & fluid movement.]
- on the spot w/o moving L-foot x 200 (cut-land)
- on the spot with L-foot catching up x 100 (cut-land-compose)

- half step away x 200 (stretch-cut-land-compose) <--swing up R-foot as pendulum to gain forward momentum (like a wrecking ball)

 

^ use the momentum of R-leg to throw your entire body forward.

- a bit further away (stretch-cut-land-compose) <--swing up R-foot

- small leap (leap-cut-land-compose)
- medium leap (ditto)
- big leap (ditto) <-- close to 'issoku-ittou' (one-step one-cut)

 aim:
- enforce 'cut-n-land' sequence
- stabilisation of the upper body under any circumstance (dissociation of limbs and upper body)
- to get used to the impact of a full Men cut in the hands.

Leap further distance:
- to retain the centre of gravity while moving limbs with extra weight (=shinai) that could throw off the balance.

Double further distance:
- use R-leg as a pendulum to leap further

...for now I'll worry about the correct use of the 'big parts' e.g. arms, legs and torso, then moving into smaller parts like hands for refinement eventually. Bigger joints/body parts --> smaller parts - seems logical order to me.