Aikido for 09/18/2010

Yesterday I taught both the Open and Fundamentals Aikido classes. For the first Open class, we practiced the following techniques:

• Tsuki kaiten-nage omote
• Yokomenuchi shihonage omote and ura using Mary Heiny Sensei's shomen cut variation and then the step-in shomenu cut up variation.
• Moretori jujinage

For the Fundamentals class, we worked on the following four techniques after warm-up and ukemi exercises.

• tsuki kotegashi
• tsuki ikkyo omote and ura
• ushiro ryotedori kotegaeshi
• ushiro ryotedori ikkyo omote and ura