Aikido for 09/27/2011

For class on Tuesday night, we worked again on nage's timing and movement to enter and disrupt uke's balance during a forward attack. Katatetori kokyunage tenkan and katatetori kokyunage irimi followed by kosadori kokyunage ikkyo style.. Ended class with movement exercises with the shinai, where uke does a shomen cut and nage slide and steps in and does a tenkai movement to either side of the shinahi to get out of the way. The last technique we practiced was a kotegaeshi weapon takeaway with the shinai shomen attack. I felt the enter focus (I was moving my head out of the way the incoming attack instead of shifting my hips to the side to avoid the attack) helps with this important concept of Aikido, namely irimi.