The musings of a weary mind. Conversations on aikido, gardening, cooking, travel and, maybe, woodworking.
Friday:
ArmadilloCon work
Oven repairman
Saturday:
Mowed part of the lawn
Work on Ron's keyboard case
Aikido at Trey's
Dinner at El Centinela with K
WSOP on TV
Sunday:
Baking: Cinnamon Rolls, Cinnamon Swirl Bread, Chocolate Chip cookies
NapArmadilloCon work
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Aikido players:
Trey
Topics:
We worked through techniques 1-10. Discussing, tweaking, exploring and figuring out approaches to teaching. We found a common flow amongst all of the techniques. All of the techniques showed a "J" shape for flow/off-balances. We might try to formalize this some more as we explore it.
Aikido players:
Randy, John, and Adam
Ukemi:
Not tonight
The Walk:
Not tonight
Releases:
Not tonight
Techniques:
Adam
and I worked through his demonstration items. It looks like we'll be concentrating on this for the next two months or so.
Yon Kata 1-14 went well
San Kata (kneeling) : issues on 4, and 6
San Kata (standing) : issues on 4 and then some issues with uke remembering the attacks
San Kata (tanto) : issues on 3, 7, and 8
San Kata (bokken) : issues on 4
San Kata (jo) : no issues
Commentary:
John and Randy are getting ready to set the date for Adam's demonstration. Probably sometime in October.
Opponent: Bumpin' Uglies
The scores were along the lines of 21-21, 14-21, 8-15
Both teams started off less than full strength and ended up full strength. Godd, solid play all around.
Friday:
VO auditions
Oven repairman
Putt-Putt with K. and C.
Saturday:
Work on Ron's keyboard case
Aikido at Trey's
ArmadilloCon work
WFC work
Dinner at El Centinela with KWSOP on TV
Sunday:
Work on Ron's keyboard case
Nap
Steaks grilled out by in-laws
Aikido players:
Trey
Topics:
We worked through techniques 8, 9, and 10. Discussing, tweaking, exploring and figuring out approaches to teaching.
Aikido players:
Randy, John, and Adam
Ukemi:
Not tonight
The Walk:
Not tonight
Releases:
Not tonight
Techniques:
Adam
and I worked through his demonstration items.
Yon Kata 1-14 went well
San Kata (kneeling) : issues on 4, 5, 6, and 7
San Kata (standing) : issues on 3
San Kata (tanto) : lots of uke trouble : issues on 3, and 7
San Kata (bokken) : issues on 4
San Kata (jo) : issues on 1, 2, and 4
Commentary:
I took a lot of wrist work this evening. It got fairly jacked up for a bit. At one point my body said "lie down or you're going to faint." Weird.
Friday:
Dinner at Ninfa's on Navigation with K
Astros baseball game
Saturday:
Blueberry pancakes
ArmadilloCon work
Storms came through, so kept Tank company in the closet
WSOP on TV
Dinner at El Centinela with K
Sunday:
ArmadilloCon work
WSOP on TV
Aikido players:
Randy, Adam, and Laura
Ukemi:
Not tonight
The Walk:
Not tonight
Releases:
I worked with Laura
Techniques:
Adam and I worked with Laura on 11-14. I worked with her until Adam showed up. She was having enough of an issue working with me that we switched over to Adam so she could accomplish something.
Commentary:
None of note.
Aikido players:
Adam, and Laura
Ukemi:
Not tonight
The Walk:
Twice
Releases:
Adam and Laura worked together
Techniques:
Adam worked with Laura on 11-14.
Commentary:
None of note.
Friday:
Haircut
Lunch at Habanero's solo
Picked up beer
Picked up truck from McRee
Paid bills
Worked on shelf for coworker
Saturday:
Up early for college campus visits with K and D
TAMU visit
Lunch at Hullaballoo
Drive to Huntsville
Sam Houston campus visit
WSOP on TV
Sunday:
Jewelry class at TX/RX Labs
ArmadilloCon work
WSOP on TV
Aikido players:
Randy, Adam, Laura, and Willie
Ukemi:
Not tonight
The Walk:
Not tonight.
Releases:
I worked with Willie.
Techniques:
I
worked with Adam. We ran through Koryu Dai Yon (1-14), and did pretty well.
Adam worked with Laura on 11-14. Then we had Willie work with Laura on the same techniques
Commentary:
None of note.
Friday:
Lunch at Habanero's solo
Mowed a good portion of the back yard
Saturday:
Mowed ditch and "Back 40"
Worked on shelving for coworker
Nap
Aikido at Trey's
In-laws grilled out steaks
Sunday:
Watch some Tour de France
Started and finished "Temping Fate" by Esther Friesner
Nap
Watch "Home" and Despicable Me 2"
Make salsa with veggies from reunion silent auction
Made peach cobbler
Grill beef/bacon/cheese burgers
Aikido players:
Trey
Ukemi:
None
The Walk:
Not today.
Releases:
Not today.
Techniques:
Trey and I continued our investigation/theorizing on improvements in teaching aikido. We worked on techniques 5, 6, & 7. We played with the off-balances of #5 and explored it in more detail, finding planted heels and corner throws, etc.
We also came up with a possible new "kata" that will explore the footwork for the first five techniques before the students ever get to lay hands on an uke. We want them to get very familiar with the footwork as one of the principle parts to a technique.
Commentary:
We played at Trey's house as the new dojo is under a contested lease status. Maybe we'll hear word on some sort of resolution soon.
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