Aikido for 10/28/2009

Last night after warming up and ukemi practice; Mike, Heather, and I practiced the following techniques:

katatetori ikkyo omote, while the technique was the basic hombu-style ikkyo with nage stepping up to atemi and then stepping back, we worked on uke not just passively accepting nage's atemi, but worked on uke bring up and blocking the atemi.

katatetori ikkyo omote second variation, for this variation, nage slides slightly off the line and then extends the grabbed wrist into uke, ideally forcing uke's elbow up and bring uke's wrist for the easy ikkyo movement, this movement is a spiral upwards and into uke

ryokatatetori tenshin-nage omote

ryokatatetori tenshin-nage ura

For the tenshin-nages, I emphasized the spiral movement up for heaven and down for earth as Saotome Sensei demonstrated last weekend. Sunday's class at the Gunnison Recreation Center will focus on more techniques from the Halloween Seminar.