Aikido Friday Night - 1/19/18 - Wasabi Dojo

Aikido players:

Willie and Laura

Ukemi:

Not tonight.

The Walk:

Not tonight.

Releases:

Not tonight.

Techniques:

I was uke or supervisor for the entire evening.

Laura did about 70 repetitions of Shihonage before Willie arrived.  Willie served as uke for a bit and then he got to attempt the technique for a bit.  And then we switched over to left side.

From there, we moved on to Tenkai Kotehineri.  Laura and Willie both got some work on the right-sided version of the technique.

At the end, I had them play with reactions that uke could attempt depending on where tori was in relationship to uke (in front, even with, behind).  If tori was in front of uke, it opened up a number of counters that uke could attempt/achieve.  When tori is even with, or slightly behind, tori has a better position and can more readily counter uke's attempts.

Ended the evening throwing Laura with some big falls.

Commentary:

Our first Friday night class.  We got a lot of work in on the desired techniques.