Saturday morning
It's always hard for me to wake up and feel motivated enough to go to class on weekends, and I'm afraid today was no exception. I managed to wake up and get something to tide me over until lunch. It was a pretty full class as testing for 5th-3rd kyu ranks is tomorrow.
Steve Sensei was supposed to teach, but Bob Sensei showed up to lead class instead.
Started out with some quick rowing exercises and a few quick rolls across the mat. Shikko (my favorite O_o) etc.. I noticed today that even my ushiro ukemi has improved.
Ushiro tekubitori//
Sensei had us practice just the opening. From a static ushiro tekubitori, swing up, extending your forward foot hand a little farther and then twisting to bring uke in front of you. Sensei emphasized that nage should start palm up. It helped me to think about the extension we practice in kokyudosa on the swing up. Sensei came by to watch my partner and I, and I managed to get a little smile and a nod that I was doing it right. *grins*
From there, ushiro tekubitori iriminage. Not much to note here except my partner, who was quite larger than me, was grabbing me by the neck so hard that I thought I'd be bruised. Apparenly my neck doesn't bruise as easily as my wrists. Probably a good thing too, because my co-workers would probably think my fiance had tried to strangle me in my sleep. O_o
Ushiro ryokatatori kotegaeshi (ura)
Same parnter. Somehow it made more sense this morning. I found that moving a little more quickly and keeping a firmer grip on uke's hand through the tenkan got him around a little easier. Also, getting more distance between myself and uke seemed to make the actually kotegaeshi more effective.
Ushiro tekubitori ikkyo (omote & ura)
With a new student and Scott Sensei. (funny, I had to resist the urge to call him Sensei on the mat this morning as I'm used to him teaching...lol) The opening was just a swing up and slide back, setting up for ikkyo. After practicing the other opening with the little twist, I was having a terrible time just holding onto nage.
It was hard to resist the urge to let go with one hand. I kept anticipating the twist scott kept saying "relax, let me do the work" :)
Omote was pretty straight forward, but the ura was really difficult. You had to let uke stay more upright in order to step behind and pivot. One tidbit I managed to digest was on the cut down, extend uke's arm out, getting almost the shoulder in front of your belt. Apparently I tried to muscle my way through it a few times *grins sheepishly* I guess it's not only the guys who try that.
I'm pretty strong, so it's sometimes hard for me to tell when I am using my strength as opposed to proper technique. I think my fellow aikiblogger, uchi-deshi, eluded to that in my comments when he remarked that some women cannot use strength to force techniques-- they may have an advantage over those of us who are physically more strong. Ah well, you work with what you have.
Shomenuchi shihonage (omote & ura)
With a student prepping for I *believe* 3rd kyu. He really made me do proper shihonage... not the slacker shihonage I usually do. He kept saying "grab my hand!" heheh
Hanmi handachi shomenuchi ikkyo (omote & ura)
EEK! This was new. Yeah, all the feelings of blunding idiocy returned in an instant.
Hanmi handachi means nage is kneeling and uke attacks standing. Sensei makes it look so graceful...I look like the Dorf on Golf guy. Ahh well, I'm not too upset about it. Hanmi handachi waza doesn't show up until 3rd kyu testing. I think I muddled through OK. ^_^
I wasn't able to stay for second class. When I was changing, Yumiko asked me why I was leaving. I whined that I had to go to work, not to mention the fact that regular classes intimidate me. I took it as a compliment though when she said I was holding my own last time we practiced together in regular class.
Managed to charm my way in an hour late tomorrow at work, so at least I can go to class, thought I will miss the testing.... but I didn't think I'd even make it to class, so yay!
Liz
Steve Sensei was supposed to teach, but Bob Sensei showed up to lead class instead.
Started out with some quick rowing exercises and a few quick rolls across the mat. Shikko (my favorite O_o) etc.. I noticed today that even my ushiro ukemi has improved.
Ushiro tekubitori//
Sensei had us practice just the opening. From a static ushiro tekubitori, swing up, extending your forward foot hand a little farther and then twisting to bring uke in front of you. Sensei emphasized that nage should start palm up. It helped me to think about the extension we practice in kokyudosa on the swing up. Sensei came by to watch my partner and I, and I managed to get a little smile and a nod that I was doing it right. *grins*
From there, ushiro tekubitori iriminage. Not much to note here except my partner, who was quite larger than me, was grabbing me by the neck so hard that I thought I'd be bruised. Apparenly my neck doesn't bruise as easily as my wrists. Probably a good thing too, because my co-workers would probably think my fiance had tried to strangle me in my sleep. O_o
Ushiro ryokatatori kotegaeshi (ura)
Same parnter. Somehow it made more sense this morning. I found that moving a little more quickly and keeping a firmer grip on uke's hand through the tenkan got him around a little easier. Also, getting more distance between myself and uke seemed to make the actually kotegaeshi more effective.
Ushiro tekubitori ikkyo (omote & ura)
With a new student and Scott Sensei. (funny, I had to resist the urge to call him Sensei on the mat this morning as I'm used to him teaching...lol) The opening was just a swing up and slide back, setting up for ikkyo. After practicing the other opening with the little twist, I was having a terrible time just holding onto nage.
It was hard to resist the urge to let go with one hand. I kept anticipating the twist scott kept saying "relax, let me do the work" :)
Omote was pretty straight forward, but the ura was really difficult. You had to let uke stay more upright in order to step behind and pivot. One tidbit I managed to digest was on the cut down, extend uke's arm out, getting almost the shoulder in front of your belt. Apparently I tried to muscle my way through it a few times *grins sheepishly* I guess it's not only the guys who try that.
I'm pretty strong, so it's sometimes hard for me to tell when I am using my strength as opposed to proper technique. I think my fellow aikiblogger, uchi-deshi, eluded to that in my comments when he remarked that some women cannot use strength to force techniques-- they may have an advantage over those of us who are physically more strong. Ah well, you work with what you have.
Shomenuchi shihonage (omote & ura)
With a student prepping for I *believe* 3rd kyu. He really made me do proper shihonage... not the slacker shihonage I usually do. He kept saying "grab my hand!" heheh
Hanmi handachi shomenuchi ikkyo (omote & ura)
EEK! This was new. Yeah, all the feelings of blunding idiocy returned in an instant.
Hanmi handachi means nage is kneeling and uke attacks standing. Sensei makes it look so graceful...I look like the Dorf on Golf guy. Ahh well, I'm not too upset about it. Hanmi handachi waza doesn't show up until 3rd kyu testing. I think I muddled through OK. ^_^
I wasn't able to stay for second class. When I was changing, Yumiko asked me why I was leaving. I whined that I had to go to work, not to mention the fact that regular classes intimidate me. I took it as a compliment though when she said I was holding my own last time we practiced together in regular class.
Managed to charm my way in an hour late tomorrow at work, so at least I can go to class, thought I will miss the testing.... but I didn't think I'd even make it to class, so yay!
Liz
posted by Liz at 5/14/2005 11:31:00 PM
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Weekend update, if it matters: obviously I doubt we could get in friday, and I'm working saturday. I don't remember if you're usually free sundays or not, but suddenly I'm not feeling as confident about it. I guess we'll see eh?
I'm usually off by 8 on sunday.
We'll go. I'm not missing ep 3 for anyone.. not even mom :)
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