After class, Tim asked why Aikido rolled the way we do from hamni and then rolling over the forward side. He then demonstrated a straight roll I have never seen before and will have to practice. The first answer I thought of was that our style of rolls comes from rolling with bokken. I grabbed a bokken and did a roll to confirm my guess. The roll was okay but I need to try some variations with more room to fully test. I may ask someone at this weekend's seminar with Saotome Sensei in Boulder.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Aikido for 10/19/2009
At tonight's class, Heather, Tim, Mike, and new student Cotton, started with a warm-up and then I worked on forward and backward ukemi with Cotton from sitting position while the other students practiced ukemi and shikkyo. After tenkan and irimi exercise, we practiced the following technique:katate dori shihonage omote katate dori shihonage ura katate dori shihonage omote and ura We ended class with kokyu-ho and a back stretch.
After class, Tim asked why Aikido rolled the way we do from hamni and then rolling over the forward side. He then demonstrated a straight roll I have never seen before and will have to practice. The first answer I thought of was that our style of rolls comes from rolling with bokken. I grabbed a bokken and did a roll to confirm my guess. The roll was okay but I need to try some variations with more room to fully test. I may ask someone at this weekend's seminar with Saotome Sensei in Boulder.
After class, Tim asked why Aikido rolled the way we do from hamni and then rolling over the forward side. He then demonstrated a straight roll I have never seen before and will have to practice. The first answer I thought of was that our style of rolls comes from rolling with bokken. I grabbed a bokken and did a roll to confirm my guess. The roll was okay but I need to try some variations with more room to fully test. I may ask someone at this weekend's seminar with Saotome Sensei in Boulder.
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