Aikido for 07/16/2011

Today I taught the open class for Garry. Since I hadn't practice bokken takeways in a while, I decided to focus on the basic weapon takeways from a straight shomen bokken cut.

• bokken-dori shomen iriminage
• bokken-dori shomen kokyu-ho kokyunage
• bokken-dori shomen tenkan kokyunage

We then repeated all of the techniques from open-hand before ending class a minute randori from a shomen strike. During the first randori, one of the students cut their toe, so we had to stop and clean-up all of the blood splatter. He wasn't able to return, so I filled in as an attacker for the reminder of the randori.