Aikido for 04/14/2011

Last night Tip emailed requesting a sub from tonight's class. I agreed to cover and when class started it was just Ken, Garry, and myself. It was different teaching class for higher ranked then me but after a quick warmup, I decided to focusing on the folowing kaeshiwazas:

• katatetori iriminage with a sankyo counter
• katatetori shihonage omote to iriminage
• katatetori nikkyo to sankyo reversal, where the reversal occurs when with the nage's outside hand as it comes over uke's arm, there is a point where nage is exposed and the sankyo reversal is right there by uke's free hand. I have never seen this before but I'm sure someone has done this before for sure. It is a very effective reversal and hard for nage to counter.
• tsuki kotegashi to iriminage
• tsuki kokyunage to kokyunage, we worked on a couple of variations and when nage tenkan and goes underneith uke's wrist for the throw, uke just extends forward and throws nage instead. If nage hand goes over the top, this isn't as effective but if uke continues the downward momentum, a kokyunage to kaitenage kaeshiwaza is right there and easy to do
• We finished with a kaeshiwaza that I haven't done before that Ken showed us where nage attempts a ikkyo omote from a shomen strike and is too late allowing uke to get solid and throw nage for kokyunage as a reversal

Tonight was fun class and afterwards, Ken and I went out to Old Chicago for some food and a couple of beers.