I played against a Sensei today visiting from another club, and a situation happened which I sometimes often have occur from my style of play and chudan no kamae, which is where they self-tsuki on the kote or on their chest/shoulder because I maintain my center.
I did this twice to the Sensei, and asked him what I should do, because in both situations, I hesitated and got struck by him. Usually, in this situation, I should have the upper hand and advantage to the situation since I have halted their momentum and attack.
What he told me was, close the distance by going into tsubazeriai distance immediately in both situations to prevent them from making an attack if I do not have the ability to make my own.
If I am able to make an attack, I should observe briefly if I can by their reaction, if they come back to guard position immediately then pressing an attack would put me into their space, where as if they also hesitate, then press the attack, but striking their shinai out of the way as I make a cut to ensure that I still dominate their center.
I understand the theory, and I tried it later on when I had jigeiko against someone else, but I find that I was ending up too close and cutting too deep on the shinai, but now that I know how it is possible to action afterwards I will try to use it more often.
I also managed to score a cut on the Sensei where he acknowledged the cut, so I was pretty happy with that. Post training when I went to thank him, his further advice to me was to slow down and not rush into my attacks. Hmm.
I did this twice to the Sensei, and asked him what I should do, because in both situations, I hesitated and got struck by him. Usually, in this situation, I should have the upper hand and advantage to the situation since I have halted their momentum and attack.
What he told me was, close the distance by going into tsubazeriai distance immediately in both situations to prevent them from making an attack if I do not have the ability to make my own.
If I am able to make an attack, I should observe briefly if I can by their reaction, if they come back to guard position immediately then pressing an attack would put me into their space, where as if they also hesitate, then press the attack, but striking their shinai out of the way as I make a cut to ensure that I still dominate their center.
I understand the theory, and I tried it later on when I had jigeiko against someone else, but I find that I was ending up too close and cutting too deep on the shinai, but now that I know how it is possible to action afterwards I will try to use it more often.
I also managed to score a cut on the Sensei where he acknowledged the cut, so I was pretty happy with that. Post training when I went to thank him, his further advice to me was to slow down and not rush into my attacks. Hmm.
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