Masago sensei visited, with mostly a focus on seme–if opponent does nothing, tsuki. If to his right, men. If to his left, kote. Also some oji-waza and applications of kata, with an emphasis on the left foot, but rather difficult to learn anything directly from his lessons.

In my keikos with him the men were a little exhilirating but it’s clear that I need to work a heck of a lot more on my kote, as tonight for instance the kote were these loops which were over-extended. That and momentum are difficult.

Three practices, but it’s all fading together–some emphasis on waza and today was definitely focused primarily on seme and nuki-waza: men-nuki-men, men-nuki-do, kote-nuki-men. Keiko was just keiko. Other than that, a focus mostly on basics, although Tuesday we had more of that monkey-in-the-middle type practice… I was asked my favorite waza, and of course, it’s kote-nuki-men