Thursday Night at the Dojo 1/18

Aikidokas: Oliver.

Ukemi: Not bad.

The Walk: did it once normally and then once doing the "stones" in reverse order. That was really strange. We stopped at one point and thought for about 10 seconds as to which one was next in reverse order. Good mental challenge.

Releases: Trying to get 90 degrees to line of force and allow uke to rotate me around as opposed to making the pivot part of my action.

Techniques:

Kote-gaeshi: spent some time working through it. With just us, it was a bit of a struggle. We tried to keep from calling Sensei out on the mat as his doctor has ordered him to stay off the mat for at least 3 weeks. We did have to call him out a couple of times. I needed help in ukeing and we both needed help as tori. We pushed it to just before gake. Neither of us felt like taking it to the actual fall, as we're both relatively inexperienced at it.

Tenkai-kote-hineri: Footwork, footwork and more footwork. Gotta use the correct feet to get the off balances. Interesting possibility if you end up beyond parallel to uke: just drop their arm to the ground and the follow it, willingly. Bizarre.

Aftermath: none, of note.