Monday Night at the Dojo 1/22

Aikidokas: Randy, Martin, Oliver, Shiela, Kim, and Leonard.

Ukemi: Not bad. Worked on popping up. Improve on this a bit and I'll work on tumbleweeds some more.

The Walk: nothing unusual.

Releases: Worked with Oliver.

Techniques: with Oliver.

We had a visitor in the dojo from Connecticut. He'd moved down recently and is looking for a dojo. Sensei Raymond asked Oliver and I to demonstrate 1-10 for him. I tori'd and Oliver uke'd. It went ok.

We then moved on to 11-14.

Kotehineri: went ok. Not confident in it yet, but that will come.

Kote-gaeshi: Not tonight.

Tenkai-kote-hineri: Spent a fair bit of time on this one, working the entry. I'm not certain the transition to the pin is correct yet.

Shiho-nage: Neither of us are getting a good transition out of the initial off-balance. Somehow our working hand position is not generating a "crank" on uke before the pivot to gake. Randy demonstrated this quite a bit, but we were being addle-headed and not capable of grasping.

Aftermath: Back home for an episode of Studio 60. Finally, a new episode.