Monday night I brought my weapons for a night of a 1,000 bokken cuts. As I was walking up to Escalante Fitness Center, I drank in the beautiful evening as the sun was setting behind the West Elk Mountains. I dressed out and as I was finishing setting up the mats, Jake and I agreed to go and practice outside on the grass. We put away the mats and as we were walking outside, Joey stopped us and asked about Aikido. I told him we practiced Monday and Wednesday night and he decided to join us.
Starting a beginner during a more advanced weapons class was a good teaching challenge. We started off with learning how to the basic shomen bokken cut. We stopped and I taught until we finished off with a 100 cuts. We then practiced doing tai no tenkan first without the bokken and then with the bokken. We then practiced happundo exercise with the bokken that also allowed us to practice our turns. Next we practiced kose-dori katate-dori ikkyo omote with nage holding the bokken. We then practiced rolling on the grass both with and without the bokken. We then kokyu-ho omote with the bokken. To demonstrate how moving your center to throw is what this technique is about, both Jake and I grabbed Joey, Joey was able to move us enough to throw us. It was fun. On Wednesday, we'll be practicing inside again.
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