Wednesday Night at the Dojo 2/21

Aikidokas: Tim, Oliver, and Joey.

Ukemi: ok. Took some big falls.

The Walk: as usual. Then we did it again after Joey bowed in.

Releases: Worked with Oliver.

Techniques: We worked in a blum-line. We managed to get through the first three techniques in the blum-line (that should probably be a proper case noun). Spent a bit of time getting Joey to work on my height differential, where my off-balance point is and how to get it without having my momentum plow through his center.

Oliver and I did some work on Kote-gaeshi. We did not manage to get a throw on each other. I was dropping my hand and not letting Oliver tell me where he wanted to be thrown. It's amazing (not!) how much of a difference Oliver's additional mass makes.

Monday I was told that if I did the throws against Oliver the way I did them against Stanley, Oliver would be flying out the dojo. It's apparent that I did not manage to duplicate my execution of the technique as I did on Monday. Oliver barely moved. I did get one almost throw, but I was not quite going along the line of his fourth toe. More work is required.

Ac had to be turned on in the dojo. Humidity was way up today.

Aftermath: Still achey knees. Got home to watch Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars. Video work this evening now that I've got a new hard drive with which to process the tapes.