Aikido for 07/13/2010

For the 6:00 class, Ken Gee started with warm-ups before moving to these techniques:

• katatetori kokyunage tenkan variation
• katatetori irimi-style kokyunage (or alternatively kokyu-ho style kokyunage)
• We then worked on an exercise where nage extends the arm and rest the tips of the fingers on uke's shoulder and then generates power through the body and tries to disrupt uke's balance through a hands-breath tsuki. After this exercise, we worked on tsuki kotegashi but Ken had nage first slide to the closed side of uke when uke punched, and then extend nage's arm, wrapping the hand over uke's forearm to control uke's balance by extending body weight and control on uke's elbow. This variation was harder than it looked because it is easy to lose uke's balance when turning tenkan to apply the kotegashi joint pin.