## Other (4)

During the entire practice, it’s important to maintain zanshin. Zanshin means maintaining physical and mental alertness after attacking. For example, if you do shikake-oji and you have done your strikes as shikake, it doesn’t mean you can just look away. Even when you’re waiting on the oji, you have to maintain eye-contact as a way of exerting focus.

When doing partner exercises with or without bogu, it’s important to perform a yoku-datotsu (a valid strike) to hit a datotsu-bui (a valid target).