Friday, July 30, 2010

Aikido for 07/29/2010

Last night Kip taught class. There wasn't very many students, (Nate, Doug, and Kate), likely due to summer camp. We started off with warm-ups and then Kip called me up to be uke for the katatetori kokyunage. For the rest of the night, I was uke for all of the demonstrations. I really tried to give good attacks and the flip side is that I had a great overall practice because I was always moving. After the kokyunage we practiced the following techniques:
  • shomenuchi ikkyo omote and ura
  • shomenuchi nikkyo omote and ura
  • shomenuchi iriminage
  • jotachi kata number one
  • kumitachi number 1

Some nights at practice, I just get into the clichéd "groove", all of the movements flowed, my techniques and my ukemi dissolve into a continuous movement with my partners. During the weapons, martial awareness and my weapons were extensions of my own movements. Good stuff.

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