Aikido for 03/24/2011

Last night Tip taught class. Ken and Garry also attended so it was good to see that they are both recovering from their recent illness. After warm-up Tip taught the following techniques:

• shomenuchi kotegashi ura with tenkai opening


• shomenuchi hijinage - when I nage, I tried an Yamaguchi inspired variation and it very easy to throw my larger uke...good stuff


• shomenuchi iriminage tenkai variation - I was uke for Tip and because of the mechanics of this technique is positions uke to take an irimi break-fall. My first break-fall was one of the best I have taken because I didn't think about it and let my body flow although it did feel like I was in the air for a longer time than normal

We finished with bokken-jo tori irimi techniques.