Yesterday I attended Garry's noon Aikido Fundamentals class. I swung by CC and waited ten minutes but no one showed up, so the class didn't have any true beginners. After a warm-up and about twenty minutes of ukemi practice, Garry had us practice the jo block to yokomen strike. After practicing these attacks, we went on and worked on kumijo number one. After practicing the kata for a bit, Garry showed the jo block to jodan stance with the jo. From the jodan stance (the jo is held straight up at the right side of nage's head), the jo swings around and knocks away uke's tsuki strike to the hip and then the jo comes up for high butt strike to uke's sternum for a complete kata of kumijo number 4.
I am feeling more confident about my kumijo 1,3, and 4. Garry has been great at helping me and I now need to start practicing the complete kumijo and bokken kumitachi in preparation for my shodan test. Boulder Aikikai hasn't set a date yet for shodan tests but at the next one, I'll be traveling up to Boulder to test. I am not doing anything special in training right now other than learning and improving my weapon requirements for the ASU test. In my open-hand techniques I need to just keep practicing and learning the ASU emphasis for the basic Aikido techniques.
On Thursday I'll be teaching class and I am already thinking of bringing some of Scott's training and exercises to my own class warm-ups and training.
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