Monday, November 14, 2011

Aikido for 11/12/2011

The past week was limited in my Aikido practice. On Thursday, I got an email from Tip asking if I could cover Thursday class for him; I agreed when I arrived for class, nobody showed up so I left after waiting around for 15 minutes.

For Saturday morning's open class, Garry started class with weapons work using the bokken. We worked on shomen cuts and on shomen cuts with movement followed by kumtachi number 1. After the weapons, we practiced the following techniques with a focus on following through with the elbow instead of the hand:
  • katatetori kokyunage tenkan
  • katatetori sankyo omote
  • katatetori shihonage omote
  • katatetori shomenuchi ikkyo omote
In related news, Sunday night I purchased my plane tickets to San Diego for January's Aikido Bridge Seminar. Ken and I are going to be roommates and I am getting more excited about my trip in a couple of months.

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