For the Open Aikido class, I taught the following techniques with continued inspiration from watching Seigo Yamaguchi Sensei's 1987 Paris seminar DVD. Since there were 9 students in attendance, I had them divide themselves into 3 groups of 3 and had uke's be ready to attack at the completion of an attack by nage, making nage more aware. During warm-ups, I had us all get in a circle to practice close to 200 shomen bokken cuts in preparation and a theme for the rest of the class. Since Yamaguchi Sensei's emphasis in the DVD was on how the shomen bokken movement is present in most techniques, practicing these cuts beforehand increases comprehension (I think) for the emphasis I wanted to bring for the rest of the class. After Thursday's class, I felt that having these cuts in recent memory would assist in understanding Yamaguchi Sensei's points.
- katatetori kokyunge tenkan variation
- katatetori nikkyo omote and ura
- katatetori iriminage
- munetsuki kotegaeshi
- munetsuki kaitennage omote
Since this was Doug's last day before a six month contract job in Afghanistan, I invited him up and following a CIA tradition, Doug had to throw all of us four times although he got to specify the attack. It was an enjoyable class to teach.
For the Open Aikido class, I started off with warm-ups and then brought out the softer, newer mats for ukemi practice. There was one new and 3 other students that stayed for class. In addition to the basic forward and backward ukemi, we also practiced some standing break-falls along with a pretty easy koshinage as well. I believe koshinages and break falls should be introduced in the beginner class to help people become familiar and even they won't be tested on them until they test for their 1st and 2nd kyu tests. We then practiced these techniques:
- katatetori tenkan
- katatetori irimi-style kokyunage
- katatetori shihonage omote and ura
- katatetori sankyo omote
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