If you've been reading my blog you'll now that I haven't exactly been the biggest fan of Tai Otoshi but today I had a breakthrough. We did Stuart's Uchikomi interval training and as I had vowed to work on my Tai Otoshi this was the entry I decided to work on. My partner was one of the Dan grades, Oswaldo, and he gave me some really useful advice.
I hadn't realised it but my the placement of my feet had not been correct, instead of stepping to the outside and taking a wide stance and I had been stepping between my opponent's legs and taking a narrow stance. I had also not been pulling my partners sleeve hand enough, therefore compromising my ability to break his/her balance. These adjustments may appear small but they made a huge difference to my execution of the technique.
Stuart's Uchikomi interval training. In an earlier post I explained that I found this relatively easy, not today. Implementing Oswaldo's adjustments certainly helped me refine the technique, but man was it hard work, I guess now I'm doing it properly.
Of course there is still a ton of stuff I still need to work on, particularly the placment of my bent leg, neverthelss I'm just glad to have seen a significant improvement.
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