Tonight Jake, Jim, and I practiced with the bokken outside in front of Escalante Fitness Center. I brought my camera and between Jim and I, took the following photos from tonight's class.
This was Jim's first experience with a bokken, so we started class with 250 shomen cuts with bokken. Here is a photo from a tenkan shomen exercise we did after the 250 cuts.
We then practiced a couple of bokken-waza kokyunages (nage has the bokken and is grabbed by uke, nage then throws uke while still holding onto the bokken)We also practiced bokken-tori kokyunages (uke attacks nage, and in this variation, nage does a tenkan out of the way, grabs the bokken handle with the close hand and throws uke forward, taking away the bokken from nage) This photo, is the end of a bokken-tori where I was nage and had just finished throwing Jake while now retaining possession of bokken. The third photo is where Jake held onto the bokken and I had to do a twisting motion to get him to release the bokken.
We finished class by working on the first five bokken katas. This was Jim's first experience and turned the class over to Jake to teach. The final photo is from when Jake and I were practicing one of the first three katas. Jake had just attacked me with a shomen strike with his bokken, I stepped to my left while bring my bokken up for a left yokemen block.
I was able to capture more photos that I need to upload to Flickr. Here is a link to some photos from class I posted on my Facebook profile. Good Stuff.
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