Aikido for 03/25/2009

Last night, Jake, Chris, Melissa, Chris, and Jim all showed-up. After warming-up, we practiced tenkan, irimi, and rowing exercises before working on forward and backward ukemi. I then introduced the empty hand shomen strike and had everyone line up and practiced both the strike and doing a tenkan to get out of the way. The final technique we worked on was Shomenuchi ikkyo omote. We broke the technique down into different steps and and the end, we switched doing the full technique in a line due to the limited mat space. It was good to see everyone practice and although there won't be a Saturday class, I am headed to Denver tomorrow afternoon for Saturday's Colorado Aikido Summit seminar.