The musings of a weary mind. Conversations on aikido, gardening, cooking, travel and, maybe, woodworking.
Aikido players:
Adam and Willie
Ukemi:
Normal slaps and a few rolls.
The Walk:
Willie worked by himself
Releases:
Not tonight
Techniques:
Adam
and I worked on his Koryu Dai San. Had some issues with kneeling Kote Gaeshi and knife Kote Gaeshi. Also did the bit of Koryu Dain Yon, and that went well.
Willie and Adam worked on Willie's Kote Gaeshi. He's getting close.
Commentary:
None of note.
Aikido players:
John, Adam, and Anna
Ukemi:
Normal slaps and a few rolls.
The Walk:
Anna worked on it with John
Releases:
Anna worked on them with John
Techniques:
Adam
and I worked on his Koryu Dai San. Had some issues with kneeling Kote Gaeshi and 3rd knife technique.
Commentary:
None of note.
Aikido players:
John, Adam, Laura and Willie. No Anna?
Ukemi:
Normal slaps and a few rolls.
The Walk:
Not tonight.
Releases:
I worked with Willie
Techniques:
Adam and I worked on his Koryu Dai San. Kind of rusty after about two weeks off. Issues with: kneeling Kote gaeshi, knife kote gaeshi. Bokken, and Jo work were pretty good.
Commentary:
None of note.
Aikido players:
Laura, and Anna ( a new student )
Ukemi:
Normal slaps plus intro to falling for Anna.
The Walk:
Multiple times. I experimented with calling out different things instead of just numbers when doing the walk ("strong", "neutral", "left", "right", etc.) to help out the new student.
Releases:
Laura and Anna worked on this.
Techniques:
Laura worked with Anna on Shomenate.
Commentary:
She came back for a second night. Good stuff
Aikido players:
Laura, Willie, and Anna ( a new student )
Ukemi:
Normal slaps plus intro to falling for Anna.
The Walk:
Twice with the full group. I then did some work with Anna on the first six stones of the walk, just the footwork. Came back to this at the end of class
Releases:
Laura and Willie worked on this. Anna did not
Techniques:
Laura and Willie worked on a bunch of techniques and joined in with me on "punch the dummy" drills
Commentary:
A new student! And we might have another one on Tuesday.
Aikido players:
Laura and Willie
Ukemi:
Normal slaps.
The Walk:
Twice
Releases:
Laura and Willie worked with each other. Took us until about 20 minutes left in the class to get through them.
Techniques:
Laura worked on Shihonage and Willie worked on Tenkai Kote Hineri
Commentary:
None of note.
Aikido players:
John, Adam and Laura
Ukemi:
Normal slaps.
The Walk:
Not tonight
Releases:
Not tonight
Techniques:
Adam and I both worked on our Yon Kata.
Then,
we did another dry run of Adam's Sandan demonstration. Then Laura ran through portions of the katas to give Adam another, much different, uke to work with.
Commentary:
None of note.
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