Aikido == of the good!

[purpletigron]

I trained. It was great! Nothing broke on anyone. Everyone who remembered me seemed genuinely pleased I was back. I was rather tired after an hour, but the 20 min walk home helped. My body remembered more than my mind did :-)

This was the regular beginners class, taught by Sensei S who was until Tuesday my builder :-) We warmed up with tenkan, back foot irimi tenkan, tsugiashi, shomenuchi, yokomenuchi and then forward and backward ukemi. (By this stage I was already slightly achy and puffed! I did toe exercises whilst everyone else did shikko, as I'm permanently banned from the hard-core knee stuff).

Then Sensei has us work on techniques from gyaku hanmi. First, basic exercises, which reminded me how to absorb when nage 'empties the beer on their head' - pivot 180 deg. on your leading foot, push up with your centre (hara/tanden), on your toes too - to 'trap the fifty quid note' between your hand and nage's wrist :-) (Grunt, puff).

Then we did two of my favouritest techniques, kaitenage and shionage - which my body could sort-of execute, although I had to concentrate on doing the ukemi safely. (My absolute favourite technique is sumiotoshi, because it's so simple and effective. One day, when I am less simple, and more effective, I will have a more sophisticated favourite :-)

Then I sat out the sitting kokyu ho and haishinundo to protect my poor knees, and it was the end of class. Oh! I got to answer the door bell to Big Sensei C, too :-) In a week or three, I will stay for the Thursday weapons class too...

And so to bed for the foolishly grinning Tigron!

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a good class!

[handslive.livejournal.com]

My absolute favourite technique is sumiotoshi, because it's so simple and effective. One day, when I am less simple, and more effective, I will have a more sophisticated favourite :-)

Or not. :-)

There's always timing, distance, leading, and learning to use your weight instead of pushing or pulling on uke. If I can get any one of those to work right, it's a good technique. Two would be brilliant.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes!