Aikido for 2/21/2009

I went to Saturday's class knowing that Jake would be out of town but various people from Santos Sensei's class had expressed interest so I was curious about who, if anyone, would show up at the Gunnison Community Center. I dressed out and a few minutes after 2, Darren, a person I met at Julie's lecture on Friday. After warming-up, we spent about fifteen minutes total working on forward and backward ukemi.

We then practiced the following techniques:

• katatedori tenkan exercise
• katatedori irimi exercise
• katatedori sumio-toshi
  
• katatedori ikkyo omote
• katatedori shiho-nage omote

After finishing with kokyu-ho exercise and pin, we did a back stretch and bowed out of class.

I took this photograph of the Last Chance Bar on my walk today. The weather was clear but cold.