So some notes on kata ipponme through sanbonme:

--If you begin with the bokuto in your left hand as you rei, it will be very difficult for you to change your sword and then draw your sword with the same right hand with which you are holding the bokuto with...

--Kakegoe for uchidachi is "Yah!"--for shidachi is "Toh!" "Yeow!" does not pass for "Yah!"

--In sanbonme, as with all kata, shidachi is in control even though uchidachi moves first. The pressure shidachi exerts forces uchidachi to attack prematurely, which shidachi counters and attacks to win. In this case, after shidachi uses nayashi against tsuki, uchidachi does not continue to press the attack, backing shidachi all the way back into the corner. It kind of makes sense. (Personally, I find that it helps to stop rather than rush as uchidachi after yielding.)


Always June, I suppose.