Aiki-peer pressure :)
Class this morning was relatively small for a Saturday morning. Usually most of the women who practice come on the weekends, but today the only girls were myself, Klara and Bindi.
Scott B. Sensei taught first class...
Attack of the morning? Morotetori. For some reason, I love this attack. :)
Scott Sensei spent a little bit of time explaining the proper way to attack morotetori. He said that uke should imagine nage is holding a sword, so the attack should be off the line. (apparently, one wouldn't run head on into a sword-- go figure ^_^)
Morotetori//
shihonage (omote only--backstretch then ukemi)
W/Floriece (relative new guy) He struggled with his feet a little, but I think once he realized it was almost just like a katatetori shihonage, he did fine. Had to remind him to kick his leg back as uke on the omote.. *grins* I've NEVER forgotten to do that *ahems!* hehe
kotegaeshi (omote)
W/Klara. Nage slides in to face the same direction as uke while swinging up, cuts down and slides back, ending up in katatetori ai hanmi--from there slide to the outside of uke for kotegaeshi. It took us a while to get this coordinated, mainly because I wasn't grabbing the right hand on the cut down and uke didn't kick the right leg back. heh. Sensei helped us figure it out though :)
Morotetori nikkyo
W/5th kyu and 4th kyu guys. I love nikkyo..heh. My partners were in awe of my flexibility in the shoulder especially on the pin. *chuckles* Sensei came over to correct my partner's initial nikkyo (where you place uke's hand on the shoulder and scoop down with a bow) and he nikkyo'd me a few times on the same arm, while stopping (not losing the nikkyo..heh) to explain the proper technique.
He started laughing at me because I was down on one knee the entire time-- I don't think he realized he hadn't let me up! O_o (all this after he nikkyo'd his demo uke about 10 times on the same arm) He made his point though!
Morotetori kokyunage
Fun!
kokyudosa
W/4th kyu.
After first class, I was starting to leave, but Mark stopped me and said "you're staying, right?"
"I'm still nervous about Second class" *sheepish look*
"But we didn't get to practice together.. you need to stay." lol gotta love aiki-peer pressure. I gave in and stayed for second class.
Second class... Scott H. taught. (yay! I've really missed his Thursday night classes)
I was the junior of juniors. Was the only other girl on the mat along with yumiko (yudansha)
Sensei's running theme for the majority of class was Tai Sabaki-- an exercise in proper evasion, footwork, timing..etc..
Started out with 4th kyu and gaijinn.
Uke tries to grab nage in katatetori ai hanmi, nage leads uke around in a circle without letting uke actually make contact. We practiced this for a bit.
Tai sabaki kokyunage
W/Gaijinn
Tai Sabaki (and I have no idea what it's called. heh)
W/Skyy. Nage leads uke around in a circle then slides in behind uke like iriminage, grabs his head while sliding off the line and pushing uke behind him. (for lack of a better description.)We all struggled with this one. Sensei said this particular movement came from the time when samurai wore helmets. The attacker would come from behind, grab the samurai's chin strap and pull back, possibly snapping their neck. Ahhh what a beautiful technique :)
Afterwards, Sensei switched focus to the Jo. (hurray for weapons!)
We practiced proper shomen, yokomen and tsuki attacks. Afterwards, Sensei had us practice yokomen ukemi--side falls. He had everyone crouch down (like a frog-- I tried to supress a giggle-- FROG UKEMI! ^_^)
He said to keep one leg standing and straighten out the other leg, falling on your side and slapping the mat. We did this from the crouching and standing positions.
I knew it must have been leading to something, because we paired off and practiced the same tai sabaki movement from the beginning of class. Nage leading uke around with the jo in a full circle then basically catching uke's leg and sweeping it out from underneath them. O_O I didn't apply the froggy ukemi very well.
Also did a jo ikkyo-ish kokyunage.
Kokyudosa..
I still hadn't had a chance to practice with Mark, so we made a point to find each other. Better than nothing! heh
Was a good class--I'm glad I stayed. Oh, and since I have OT, I get to go in late.. I'll make it to class in the morning. Yay :)
Scott B. Sensei taught first class...
Attack of the morning? Morotetori. For some reason, I love this attack. :)
Scott Sensei spent a little bit of time explaining the proper way to attack morotetori. He said that uke should imagine nage is holding a sword, so the attack should be off the line. (apparently, one wouldn't run head on into a sword-- go figure ^_^)
Morotetori//
shihonage (omote only--backstretch then ukemi)
W/Floriece (relative new guy) He struggled with his feet a little, but I think once he realized it was almost just like a katatetori shihonage, he did fine. Had to remind him to kick his leg back as uke on the omote.. *grins* I've NEVER forgotten to do that *ahems!* hehe
kotegaeshi (omote)
W/Klara. Nage slides in to face the same direction as uke while swinging up, cuts down and slides back, ending up in katatetori ai hanmi--from there slide to the outside of uke for kotegaeshi. It took us a while to get this coordinated, mainly because I wasn't grabbing the right hand on the cut down and uke didn't kick the right leg back. heh. Sensei helped us figure it out though :)
Morotetori nikkyo
W/5th kyu and 4th kyu guys. I love nikkyo..heh. My partners were in awe of my flexibility in the shoulder especially on the pin. *chuckles* Sensei came over to correct my partner's initial nikkyo (where you place uke's hand on the shoulder and scoop down with a bow) and he nikkyo'd me a few times on the same arm, while stopping (not losing the nikkyo..heh) to explain the proper technique.
He started laughing at me because I was down on one knee the entire time-- I don't think he realized he hadn't let me up! O_o (all this after he nikkyo'd his demo uke about 10 times on the same arm) He made his point though!
Morotetori kokyunage
Fun!
kokyudosa
W/4th kyu.
After first class, I was starting to leave, but Mark stopped me and said "you're staying, right?"
"I'm still nervous about Second class" *sheepish look*
"But we didn't get to practice together.. you need to stay." lol gotta love aiki-peer pressure. I gave in and stayed for second class.
Second class... Scott H. taught. (yay! I've really missed his Thursday night classes)
I was the junior of juniors. Was the only other girl on the mat along with yumiko (yudansha)
Sensei's running theme for the majority of class was Tai Sabaki-- an exercise in proper evasion, footwork, timing..etc..
Started out with 4th kyu and gaijinn.
Uke tries to grab nage in katatetori ai hanmi, nage leads uke around in a circle without letting uke actually make contact. We practiced this for a bit.
Tai sabaki kokyunage
W/Gaijinn
Tai Sabaki (and I have no idea what it's called. heh)
W/Skyy. Nage leads uke around in a circle then slides in behind uke like iriminage, grabs his head while sliding off the line and pushing uke behind him. (for lack of a better description.)We all struggled with this one. Sensei said this particular movement came from the time when samurai wore helmets. The attacker would come from behind, grab the samurai's chin strap and pull back, possibly snapping their neck. Ahhh what a beautiful technique :)
Afterwards, Sensei switched focus to the Jo. (hurray for weapons!)
We practiced proper shomen, yokomen and tsuki attacks. Afterwards, Sensei had us practice yokomen ukemi--side falls. He had everyone crouch down (like a frog-- I tried to supress a giggle-- FROG UKEMI! ^_^)
He said to keep one leg standing and straighten out the other leg, falling on your side and slapping the mat. We did this from the crouching and standing positions.
I knew it must have been leading to something, because we paired off and practiced the same tai sabaki movement from the beginning of class. Nage leading uke around with the jo in a full circle then basically catching uke's leg and sweeping it out from underneath them. O_O I didn't apply the froggy ukemi very well.
Also did a jo ikkyo-ish kokyunage.
Kokyudosa..
I still hadn't had a chance to practice with Mark, so we made a point to find each other. Better than nothing! heh
Was a good class--I'm glad I stayed. Oh, and since I have OT, I get to go in late.. I'll make it to class in the morning. Yay :)
posted by Liz at 6/11/2005 10:29:00 PM
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