7.29.2013

Aikido Saturday Afternoon - 6/27/13

Aikido players:  Tim, Trey, Troy, Dan the Elder, and Mario

Ukemi:

Got in a partial set.

The Walk:

Twice, as usual, with just Dan and Mario

Releases:

Dan and Mario went through their paces

Techniques:

Dan and Mario did a couple of reps of Shomen-ate, Agamae-ate, and Gyaku-gamae-ate before Troy's demonstration.

Troy did his Shodan demonstration.  He did really well and was visibly relieved to have it over and done.

Aftermath:

We went to a local Tex-Mex joint to celebrate the accomplishment.

7.27.2013

Aikido Friday Night - 7/26/13

Aikido players:  Tim, Trey, Troy, Marvin, Gail, Dan the Elder, and Mario

Ukemi:

Got in a partial set.

The Walk:

Twice, as usual

Releases:

We introduced folks to a kata based on the releases.  It is known by a number of names: Ki Harry, Name No Waza, Name No Kata, Stupid Kata.  You start with one of the releases, or in some cases two, and transition into a series of some of the techniques 6-17 from Ju Nana Hon Kata.

So we spent a good portion of the evening working on that.

Techniques:

Trey and I played with variations of Kote Gaeshi.  Played with uke's reaction and where tori goes in a number of cases.

Trey and Troy ran through Troy's Shodan demonstration material a couple of times.

After working on Ki Harry, Dan and Marvin did some spot work on Hiki Taoshi, Oshi Taoshi, Gyaku Gamae-ate, and Shome-ate.


Aftermath:

None of note.

7.26.2013

Aikido Thursday Night - 7/25/13

Aikido players:  Dan the Elder

Ukemi:

None tonight

The Walk:

Not on Thursdays, normally.

Releases:

Not on Thursdays, normally.

Techniques:

We spent the evening on Hiki-taoshi.  Left-sided.  I was able to see a number of issues that prevent the technique from working.

1. If tori does not take uke off of his 4th toe, uke will walk right out
2. If tori turns his center 90 degrees to uke, uke will walk right out
3. If tori takes uke off of 4th toe, and tori keep his hand in his center, uke has something to fight against and won't go down easily.
4. If tori keeps his hand too low as uke is falling, uke has a chance to reach for tori's ankles and prevent the armbar

We ended up with a number of nice techniques by the end of the night.

Aftermath:

None of note. 

Wednesday workout

Elliptical: 14 minutes, incline, level 4,  2.1 miles, 208 cal

Weight machine out of order still.

Monday workout

Elliptical: 14 minutes, incline, level 4,  2.0 miles, 203 cal

Weight machine out of order again.

Weekend update

Friday:

Worked some extra hours over the pay period, so took Friday off
Worked on a Chocolate/Brioche bread and the usual sourdough
Lunch with K. at Gina's
Aikido

Saturday:

Early aikido
Art Show stuff
K tried out some potential recipes for the Staff Den

Sunday:

Watched some Tour de France and some of the British Open
Art Show stuff

7.22.2013

Aikido Saturday Afternoon - 7/20/13

Aikido players:  Tim, Trey, Troy, Marvin, Gail, Dan the Elder, and Mario

Ukemi:

Got in a full set.

The Walk:

Twice, as usual

Releases:

Watched Mario and Troy work through them.

Techniques:

Marvin, Dan, and Mario worked on Shomen-ate, Aigamae-ate, and Gyaku-gamae-ate.  They did pretty well.

Aftermath:

We ended class after about 3 hours.  There was some heavy rain falling and we did not want to risk getting everyone stranded by flooded streets.

Aikido Friday Night - 7/19/13

Aikido players:  Tim, Troy, Marvin, Gail, Dan the Elder, and Mario

Ukemi:

Got in a partial set.

The Walk:

Twice, as usual

Releases:

Watched Mario and Marvin worked through them.

Techniques:

Marvin and Dan worked on Hiki-taoshi

Aftermath:

None of note.

Aikido Thursday Night - 7/18/13

Aikido players:  Dan the Elder

Ukemi:

None tonight

The Walk:

Not on Thursdays, normally.

Releases:

Not on Thursdays, normally.

Techniques:

We spent the evening on Hiki-taoshi.  Got some good results.

Aftermath:

None of note. 

7.16.2013

Monday workout

Elliptical: 17 minutes, incline, level 4,  2.5 miles, 251 cal

Weight machine out of order again.

7.14.2013

Weekend update - 4th of July

Took an extra day off to make a 4 day weekend. 

Did a lot of baking.  Made some baguettes (horrible), sourdough (good), banana sandwich bread (good), kolaches (getting better).

Did some yard work: mowed the back ditch/creek.  Got a good portion cleaned up, but there is still some more to do.

Grilled out steaks on Sunday and made a peach cobbler.  Bought some Blue Bell to go with it.  Awesome!

Usual aikido classes on Friday and Saturday

Aikido Saturday Afternoon - 7/13/12

Aikido players:  Tim, Trey, Troy, Dan the Elder, and Mario

Ukemi:

Got in a full set. 

The Walk:

Twice, as usual

Releases:

Watched Trey and Mario work, and Troy and Dan work

Techniques:

Mario did some work on Shomen-ate.  Dan did some work on 6-9.

Troy then ran through all of the stuff for a Shodan demo with multiple ukes.  He'll be demoing in 2 weeks.

Aftermath:

None of note. 

Aikido Friday Night - 7/12/13

Aikido players:  Tim, Troy, Marvin, Gail, Dan the Elder, and Mario

Ukemi:

Got in a full set. 

The Walk:

Twice, as usual

Releases:

Watched Mario and Troy work through them.

Techniques:

I did some work with Marvin on oshi-taoshi and ude-gaeshi.

Aftermath:

Tweaked my back a bit early on in the evening and jammed my right hand on an oshi-taoshi fall.

Wednesday workout

Elliptical: 17 minutes, incline, level 4,  2.5 miles, 245 cal

Weight machine out of order again.

SooneerCon22 con report

This past weekend I took a trip out to Oklahoma City to be a part of SoonerCon 22.  I had a great time, ran into some old friends, and go to do some aikido.

Thursday:

Up at 4:15 a.m. to catch a 6:25 a.m. flight to OKC.  No real issues.  My bag did get hand-checked because of the bottle-stoppers I was bringing for the art show.  Did some reading of Poppy Brite's "The Devil You Know".

Landed in OKC, got my rental, a Dodge Charger, and zipped off to the hotel.  My room was not ready, no real surprise, and they weren't setting up the con yet, so I went out for breakfast.  I ended up at "The Hungry Frog" over on North Penn.  A small, neighborhood diner with a regular crowd.  Good food.  I did not order enough.

Back to the hotel to do some more reading until time to head to the Windsong Dojo for an aikido class.  Nick Lowry's dojo has a bunch of classes through the week, and this has become a tradition.  It's great working with folks from the same lineage with a slightly different approach.  It was a great class.  We spent some time working on hiki-taoshi variants and reactions.

Back from class to the hotel, to wait on my room and read some more.  I finally got the room and went to help set up the art show.  They'd already set up most of it.  I suppose I should have been reading in the convention center.

Dinner was with some of the convention crew at Mr Spriggs BBQ.  Pretty awful stuff: dry, tough, and flavorless.

Friday:

Up at a reasonable hour.  Breakfast at "Dan's Alley", another neighborhood diner with a bunch of regulars.

Did some email reading and then in to the convention.  Friday's panels were: "Effective Storytelling in Illustration" crowd of one or two, "The Importance of Classic Figure Drawing", another small crowd.

Dinner was at "All-American Dixie Diner" on N.W. 23rd.  (Yes, it was a diner weekend.)  I'd wanted to try "Classic 50's Diner" on the same street, but they closed each day at 2 p.m. They had a good chicken fried chicken and a good banana pudding cake.

Saturday:

Up at 5:30 a.m. to make it to an early morning aikido class at 6:30 a.m.  I got lost on the way to the dojo this time, but I still managed to make it in time for class.

Breakfast at Ray's Cafe, just a few blocks from the dojo.

Panels: "Monster in an Hour", "But Is It Art".  Decent crowds  Art Auction/Charity Auction.  Good fun and we brought in some good money.

Dinner: S & B's Burger Joint.  Good burger.  Best restaurant Pecan Pie I've had in quite some time.

Sunday:

Up at a normal hour.  Tried to have breakfast at Classic 50's Diner, but they are not open on Sunday's, so it was back to "All-American Dixie Diner".  Major detour on the way there due to a fire of some sorts.

Panels: "Digital Art as the New Norm", "Leia is NOW a Disney Princess".  The Leia panel had the biggest crowd for teh weekend, and I felt outmatched on the panel.  Owen Stephenson has had a lot of contact with the Star Wars 'verse while working on games and he had a lot of inside knowledge.

Stuck around and helped shut down the Art Show.  Got to the airport, read, waited for a delayed flight and managed to make it home, just a bit early.

7.08.2013

Aikido Saturday Afternoon - 7/6/13

Aikido players:  Tim, Trey, Troy, Marvin, Gail, Dan the Elder, and Mario

Ukemi:

Got in a full set.  Watched over Gail

The Walk:

Twice, as usual

Releases:

Worked with Mario on his releases.

Techniques:

We did a Blum-line with Marvin, Gail, Dan, Mario, and myself.  We worked through the shomen-ate, aigamae-ate, and gyaku gamae-ate.

After that, in the end of class session, Troy, Trey, Dan and I did randori with 3 ukes.  It was rough.  I did not do as well as I would have liked.  Troy got a lot of time in the middle and did pretty well.

Aftermath:

None of note. 

Aikido Friday Night - 7/5/13

Aikido players:  Tim, Troy, Marvin, Gail, Dan the Elder, and Mario

Ukemi:

Got in a full set.  Watched over Gail

The Walk:

Twice, as usual

Releases:

Watched Mario and Marvin work through them.

Techniques:

Mario and Marvin did some work on shomen-ate and aigamae-ate.

Aftermath:

None of note. 

Wednesday workout

Elliptical: 15 minutes, incline, level 4,  2.1 miles, 208 cal

Weight machine out of order again.

7.03.2013

Monday workout

Elliptical: 15 minutes, incline, level 4,  2.0 miles, 204 cal

Leg press (both): 2 x 15@140 lbs
Leg press (left): 1 x 15@90 lbs, 1 x 15 @ 80
Leg press (right): 2 x 15@80 lbs

Leg extension(both): 2 x 15@60 lbs
Leg curl (both): 2 x 15@60 lbs

Standard chest straight motion: 2 x 15@110 lbs.