Last night Jake, Joey, and Jim attended class. I received my new hakama too late to wear but its debut will be Wednesday class. I changed up the class a bit and after doing a quick warm-up and ukemi practice, I tried to demostarte some Aikido aspect from each instructor who taught on Saturday's Aikido Summit. We started off with doing Ikeda Sensei's ikkyo technique, focusing on both uke's and nage's balance. Next, I used both Iwaza Sensei and Itoh Sensei styles as inspiration by doing a shomenuchi kokyunage that at the end you can either throw uke and have uki do a break fall. The third technique we worked on was an introduction to the unbendedable arm. I talked Chandler Sensei's 3 methods of visualization of the unbendedable arm and had everyone practiced this exercise. My Tanaka Sensei inspired technique was more grab and throw using more of a judo movement. We did this technique in a line. I used Jake to just demo the Treadwell Sensei's choke and arm-bar technique because I did not want to teach this dangerous technique without first modifing it to be more "Aikido" like. Finally, following Cyndy Hayashi method, we did a slow randori practice with nage just doing tenkan and irimi but at the end I think everyone reverted to more aggressive techniques. I had to continuelly reminded everyone to slow down as the randori can easily escalate into more aggressive attacks and responses.
At the end of class, we did kokyu-ho and a back stretch. By writing about my experiences in this blog and reinforcing these techniques when teaching a class and further writing about it my blog, I am reinforcing what I have learned.
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