Aikido for 11/17/2008

The focus of last night's Aikido class was tanto-tori (knife takeaways). After warm-up, Jake and I practiced the following techniques with the tanto:

• tanto-tori tsuki kotegoshi
• tanto-tori shomenuchi irmi-nage
• tanto-tori yokomenuchi shiho-nage omote and ura
• tanto-tori yokomenuchi Gokyu omote and ura
• tanto-tori ushrio kubishime

We won't be having class the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Jake talked to Joey and he is likely out for the rest of the semester. Jake and I also talked how to increase participation and we might do an Aikido demostration along with advertising that the class is free to take at Escalante Fitness Center.