Aikido for 04/06/2009

For Monday's Aikido class, Jake, Joey, and I did the warm-up and added two hapoundo (8-way) exercise from both left and right hamni. We then worked two tsuki kotegaeshi variations from the 6th kyu ASU testing requirements. I am not sure what Ikeda Sensei considers as the basic kotegaeshi technique, so the first variation was an initial tenkan movement and the second was a step-back and cut-down opening before applying the kotegashi in front of uki for an omote-style variation. The last technique was a katadori ikkyo variation before ending class with a kokyu-ho exercise variation as well.