Aikido for 03/23/2009

Last night we had four new beginners, Chris, Melissa, Chris, and Jim. Jake and Joey showed up so it was the most crowed the Monday class has ever been. We started off with warming up and then spent a good amount of time introducing forward and backward ukemi. All of the students progressed well, and Jake's backward ukemi lesson was good as always. After ukemi practice, we paired up and practice tenkan and irimi exercises. The only technique we practiced was katate dori sumotoshi. We then ended class with kokyu-ho exercise. On Friday I am driving to Denver for Saturday's Aikido Friendship Seminar. I am looking foward to all of the different classes that day.