Aikido for 06/14/2011

Last night Ken taught class and after warmups we practiced the following techniques:

• katatetori kokyunage tenkan
• tsuki to the face kokyunage variations (during one variation I was uke while Ken demonstrated a tsuki elbow atemi and the timing was slightly off and I got nice forearm to the face)
• jo kata opening where nage goes into a cat stance with all of the weight on the back foot, I still need work on this because my natural tendancy is to distribute my weight between my legs and doing that means it is not as fast or as smooth with the jo counter.