Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Aikido for 08/26/2010 and new dojo floor

Ken taught Aikido class as Tip was out for the night. After warm-up, we practiced katatetori kokyunage tenkan style, shomenuchi ikkyo omote and ura, munetsuki hijinage, munetsuki kotegashei. We then worked on the same Doran Sensei bokken exercise and a different bokken kata.

This past weekend, I spent at the dojo. Friday night we moved the mats to Garry's house. Saturday, while people were ripping out the floor, I went with Nate, Clint, and Doug to Lowes and help load all of the building supplies for the new floor of the dojo. This took most of the morning (2 hours) as it took four truck-loads to move all of the material. I then went back and help remove the old floor's 2x4 beams. On Sunday, we started at 10 am and worked until 4, building out all of the standard portion of the floor. Last night we finished up custom sections and tonight we will be moving the mats to the dojo. I won't be attending tomorrow's class but I am planning on my usual Thursday night class at the dojo. Garry is not able to teach his two classes this Saturday, so I volunteered. I have started working on the lesson plan for the open class (surawaza and hamni-handache techniques will be the focus) and for the beginner, fundemtal class, I will teach my basic Aikido.

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