Aikido for 09/17/2011

I taught both the Open and Fundamentals classes yesterday at the dojo. For the Open class, Doug (who has been working as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan) was visiting and we had three other students. After warm-ups, we worked on the following techniques:

• katatetori tenkan kokyunage
• hamni-handachi katatetori tenkan kokyunage
• ushiro ryo-katatetori iriminage two variations
• ushiro ryo-katatetori shihonage omote and ura
• ushiro ryo-katatetori ikkyo omote
• ushiro ryo-katatetori jujinage omote

For the open class, we started with warm-ups and then after tenkan and irimi exercises, we worked on ukemi and katatetori ikkyo.