Aikido for 01/22/2011

This morning I went to the dojo an hour early to observe the youth class testing. The tests consist of forward and backward ukemi, going through all of the major attacks, The four kids who tested did very well and afterwards I stayed for Garry's 10:30 class.

Garry started class by immediately going into these techniques:

• katatetori tenkan kokyunage
• katatetori irimi kokyunage
• katatetori hijinage both static and dynamic
• munetsuki koyunage with nage moving off the line with a straight atemi to uke's face, forcing uke to take a quick ukemi
• ryo katatetori tenshinage both static and dynamic
• bokken shomen cuts
• paired bokken shomen and response kata

This morning's Aikido was enjoyable and I was able to get some good practice in.