Heather and I started with warm-up and ukemi practice for today's class. We then practiced the following techniques:
- shomenuchi shihonage omote and ura, both from ai and gakyu hamni
- yokomenuchi shihonage omote and ura, both from ai and gakyu hamni
- tsuki shihonage shihonage omote and ura, both from and gakyu hamni
We then practiced the first and second kumitachi with bokkens. Teaching the kumitachi made think harder and understand theses kata better. I studied both kumitachis before class and had created a cheat-sheet with stick-figures that diagrammed both kumitachi. I wish there was a vocabulary to describe Aikido techniques, this may be a use case for a better descriptive, community defined visual vocabulary that could be used as a bibliographic subject authority. (As I slip into library world, goes to show how programming on the eCataloger bleeds into my Aikido life.)
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