Aikido for 12/08/2011

Tip wasn't able to teach Thursday's class so I volunteered to teach. During warm-ups and since there was only Garry, Ken, Nate, and Clint in attendance, I decided to follow Garry's suggestion to have everyone teach at least one technique. So after doing our standard katatetori kokyunage tenkan and irimi techniques; Clint started off with doing shomenuchi ikkyo. Nate followed with a neat exercise where nage lead uke with a light touch through katatetori shihonage omote and ura. I followed with a tsuki iriminage. Garry's technique was a yokokymenuchi technique with Ken doing a different type of kokyunage. We came back to Clint who finished off the night with a tsuki kotegashi. I worked with Ken on the kotegashi and we did a variation from Steven Seagal movie. Cool stuff and although at times I felt off a bit, a good class.