This morning I went to the 10:30 Aikido class taught by Gary. We started off with warm-ups, katatetori kokyunage, katatetori iriminage, and then we focused on tsuki for the rest of class. We worked on a number of different kokyunages from tsuki, along with a couple of hijinages, and tsuki kotegashi. We finished classes with a few tanto variations, the first uke attacks with a tsuki and nage responds by sliding to uke's side, grabs uke's wrist and then turns into uke, cutting uke's midsection before bring the tanto behind uke for a modified standing yonkyo pin and tanto takeway, all while standing. A cool variation that I haven't practiced before. There was a large class today, with 14 students, and I believe I was able to practice with everyone. I have some chores todo, including the daily back-up at my job, so I didn't stay for the second Aikido fundamentals class.
On a separate topic, after Aikido I went and purchased a new vacuum cleaner, an iRobot Roomba, that is currently charging overnight before I unleash a new robot cleaner to vacuum my carpets tomorrow. Wow, I am living in the future when I can buy a relatively cheap cleaning robot that does not require human intervention to run (although it does require me to clean-out the dirt bin and plug it it, so it isn't completely autonomous)
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