Aikido for 04/27/2009

Jake, Joey, Jim, and I began our warm-up. I talked about this past weekend's seminar and repeated some things I have already written about in previous blog entries. We practiced the following techniques:

• Ryotedori tenchi-nage omote both standard Aikikai style and the variation Heiny Sensei demonstrated during Sunday's class
• Katadori ikkyo movement using Ikeda Sensei's
  
• Ai-kamni katatedori hijinage or kokyunage both standard Aikikai and Heiny Sensei's lateral movement.

I hope I was able to express my appreciation of my experience and practice this weekend and I feel the one of the better ways for me to do this is teach as much as I remember, but more importantly, show the value of attending such seminars as the one I went to at Boulder Aikikai this weekend.