Wednesday is traditional a free day but there was still a couple of classes for those interested. I went to the 9:30 to 11:30 class by Sakabe Sensei.
Sakabe Sensei started off with a pretty rigorous warm-up including some warm-up exercises I have never seen before. We then started off with a kosadori kokyunage, kosadori sankyo, and then we practiced a number of interesting and new tanto tori techniques including a straight tsuki from surawaza that ended with nage pivoting away on one knee, bringing the closer arm over uke's arm while going underneath uke's knife with other for an ikkyo knife takeaway. We worked on some bokken takeways next. When then did a series of jo tori techniques and I was lucky enough to train with Jim Alvarez Sensei from California. He helped with some small suggestions and my technique was much easier to perform. We ended class with an exercise where nage is the middle of a triangle of three ukes with bokkens. All the uke's attack with a shomen strike and nage irimi-tenkan and is next to one of the ukes. Cool stuff.
For this afternoon, I'll be working on some job-related stuff (I don't know how productive I'll be, it is hard to shift gears and start programming in Python). I might play hooky and go down to the river to try my new fly pole my father gave me the last time I was Grand Junction.
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