Aikido for 09/16/2009

Last night a new student, Heather, attended class for the first time along with Tim and Mike. After introducing the basic wrist, legs, and body warm-up, we worked on sitting, kneeling, and standing forward ukemi. We then worked on kneeling back ukemi before moving onto tenkan and irimi exercises. We then practiced the following technqiues:

katatedori iriminage

katatedori ikkyo omote (actually we just practiced the opening to ikkyo up until the throw or pin on the mat. The opening to ikkyo we practiced last night is what I call Hombu style, the style the current Doshu demostrates in his book, Best Aikido)

As Western's football game is at 1:30 on Saturday, we changed the class time to Sunday at 2:00 pm instead of the usual Saturday's time. This Sunday class is open to anyone, the only cost is admission price to the Gunnison Fitness Center. I am planning to get a season's pass next month.