Aikido for 10/26/2009

Tonight after warm-up and ukemi practice, I added the two single-leg exercises Saotome Sensei had us practice to improve your balance for kicking followed by tenkan and irimi exercises. We then practiced the following techniques from Saotome Sensei's seminar:

munetsuki to the face, nage atemi's with a front kick to uke's midsection

uke front kick, nage slides irimi, scooping with outer hand, catching uke's foot while nage comes straight down with an elbow atemi, this would be a type of ukemi

munetuski elbow pin, where nage uses the hand of the forward arm to blend with the punch while sliding to side. Nage comes underneith and the forward hand grabs the other wrist locking uke's lower arm and the submission pin comes quick.

munetuski kokyunage with uke using the forward arm with an atemi strike.

All of these techniques Mike and I constructed from our collective memories from the seminar. I know we are missing more techniques, but I still have few more kicking kokyunages to practice for Wednesday and Sunday classes. As Saotome Sensei said this weekend, "The past are memories, the future is hope, now is now."