{"id":321,"date":"2009-02-04T17:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2009-02-06T19:48:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:48:06","slug":"we-will-fight-while-standing-while-sitting-while-jumping-we-will-no-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"We will fight, while standing, while sitting, while jumping.  We will not surrender!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I know that&#8217;s not how Sir Winston Churchill said it.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s the goal for the next three months.\u00a0 A true understanding of material leading up to 5th kyu.<\/p>\n<p>The first month will be spent against different styles of punches and kicks.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t want to get caught in our own little world.\u00a0 In the techniques of the Bujinkan, it does not say what type of punch.\u00a0 So we need to work against retracting punches, hooks, uppercuts etc.\u00a0 We need to work against kicks, snap kicks, roundhouse kicks, knees etc.<\/p>\n<p>Second month throws, how do you deal with people trying to throw you?\u00a0 What if they are using wrist locks?\u00a0 If you are at the point where you need to take ukemi, you are in a bad place.\u00a0 How can you position yourself so it doesn&#8217;t happen?<\/p>\n<p>Third month ground, dealing with ukemi, taihen jutsu, kihon happo etc.\u00a0 Can you do everything you can standing up on the ground?\u00a0 Do you know how your movement works on the ground or are you going to just do what you see on PPV events?<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s basically what is going on February through April.\u00a0 In May we look forward to doing considerable work on the top few kyus leading to Shodan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I know that&#8217;s not how Sir Winston Churchill said it.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s the goal for the next three months.\u00a0 A true understanding of material leading up to 5th kyu. The first month will be spent against different styles of punches and kicks.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t want to get caught in our own little world.\u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-drills-bujinkan","category-training-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}