Aikido for 11/11/2009

Tonight's class started with Heather, Mike, and I warming up and practiced forward and backward ukemi. We then practiced the following techniques:

surawaza shomenuchi ikkyo omote and ura

surawaza shomenuchi iriminage

Cotton, a new student who attended one class in the past, showed up and so I switch to katatetori ikkyo omote and ura beginning movements, finishing off with kokyu-ho exercise at the end. I hope Cotton will be back next week and I may have another student starting, Eric, who watched us practiced. Eric has trained in hapkido as part of some modern koryu system that includes bokken techniques and other weapons-based martial arts. Although I had to bite my tongue when he was commenting on the techniques while I was teaching class, I hope to learn more about the arts he practices.