After warm up, we did sword practice, walking straight line with sword in hands. It sounds easy, but it is difficult to do. Holding the sword make you sensitive of where the weight is, you have to be very careful maintain the balance so you walk straight and steady. We also did some hip turn exercise, shift weight to one side, rotate on the weighted leg with arms wide open to your side.
Then Q&A time, I brought up that I felt Kotehineri is the hardest technique of all, sensei decided to test all of us how well we do on this technique, not surprisingly we failed. We spent the rest of the class rotating through sensei, correct our kotehineri one by one. My takeaway is use thumb rather than fingers to do hineri on uke, and really need to see uke's arm as a stick, drive it to uke's center, maintain it throughout.
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