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For warmups, If I lead.. If we do, heres what I usually do.

Ashi-sabaki (diag, foward-back, side to side)

Jougen suburi - 20

Back-forward men - 30-40

Yoko-men - 30-40

Hayasuburi - 20, 30, then last 10...

If time permits,

squatting suburi - 30

"the cross" - Suburi going forward, back, right left. (right left doing sayuu men)
i usually do like 30.

so Id say from totalling everything up, 140-220 swings. One time though we did 500 suburi for warmups...

For "cooldowns", we sometimes go through "quick" conditioning drills. Or it can be as simple as one good set of kirikaeshi at the end..

Moocow has a point that our sensei likes to stress.. You can do as many suburi as you want, but if you do 750 wrong, it is much worse than doing 50-100 swings correctly. Id much rather build on 50 correct suburi than struggle through 1000.

Tim