At the beginning of last night's Aikido class, Jake and I worked on tenkan foot-work, both sliding and stepping variations. This lead to examination of the our different kamae, Jake tends to have a wider stance while in my own basic left or right kamae, my back foot ends up near 45 degree angle from my forward foot and directly behind me. While this kamae presents a narrow forward profile, it is weaker from attacks at the side. I only end up in this exaggerated kamae after doing tenkan. The final techniques we practiced was shomen-uchi irimi-nage both the basic technique and then a more irmi-nage advanced form. Irmi-nage, after working on our tenkan footwork, reinforced how important foot-work is in irmi-nage. During the initial turn, there is a dead-spot where unless nage has uke sufficiently connected, shifting nage's body weight from forward to back foot creates balance problems for nage.
After class, I walked over to Ute hall and watched part of a Godzilla movie while enjoyed California, Vegetable, and Salmon rolls at an event by the Asian Club at the college.
On Saturday Jake and I are meeting 10:30 a.m. at the Community Recreation Center for at least an hour and half class. I am planning a more in-depth training session as the mats are better for break falls an sura-wazi techniques.
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