Aikido day 2-49
May. 22nd, 2009 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j_v_lynchGentle Readers,
Our senior student was unable to attend class this morning due to pulling something in his chest at class last night. So sensei starts off class saying that clearly the problem is that we are too soft in the morning class and we must start working harder so that we don't get beat up by the evening students.
What we went on to do was sensei's take on what K did on Wednesday, both of them looking at different aspects of what they did at the seimnar in montreal last weekend (or at least that's my guess). The basic premise is that instead of doing an irimi and a full tenkan on the entry, you do a partial tenkan, about 45 deg less than full. Getting this positioning right is tricky. Today we were doing it with a cut across after the step. There is a great deal of centrifical force generated and it's pretty cool.
We also did both types of break falls. As always, I need more practice. With the forward breakfall, I need to hop more, but I am getting myself pointed in the right direction. With the hip throws I'm still holding on, but I suspect that that is a response to not getting my feet up high enough.
It was a great class. My legs a still a little wobbly.
Our senior student was unable to attend class this morning due to pulling something in his chest at class last night. So sensei starts off class saying that clearly the problem is that we are too soft in the morning class and we must start working harder so that we don't get beat up by the evening students.
What we went on to do was sensei's take on what K did on Wednesday, both of them looking at different aspects of what they did at the seimnar in montreal last weekend (or at least that's my guess). The basic premise is that instead of doing an irimi and a full tenkan on the entry, you do a partial tenkan, about 45 deg less than full. Getting this positioning right is tricky. Today we were doing it with a cut across after the step. There is a great deal of centrifical force generated and it's pretty cool.
We also did both types of break falls. As always, I need more practice. With the forward breakfall, I need to hop more, but I am getting myself pointed in the right direction. With the hip throws I'm still holding on, but I suspect that that is a response to not getting my feet up high enough.
It was a great class. My legs a still a little wobbly.
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Date: 2009-05-22 10:23 pm (UTC)It has been a pleasure to have S. with us the last few times, too. I've found over the years that he is a bit of a wild card ranging anywhere from complete asshole, to extremely helpful and thoughtful, and I am always a little edgy to see him show up out of the blue. But gratefully he has been nothing but extremely helpful the last few times. He is VERY good as your uke taaching you how to do the big throws - which is impressive given he has to be well over 250 lbs! He is a textbook example of what Sensei always says about it is uke's job to teach the techniques to nage. Oh, and damned his tree-trunk wrists are hard to get ahold of for a guy with tiny hands like me!
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Date: 2009-05-24 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-24 09:39 pm (UTC)At least your fingers are a few inches longer than mine ...