Please be advised

...I cannot be held responsible for any spelling and/or grammatical errors in the following post. I'm completely exhausted, and should probably be asleep.

Class tonight..

Sensei was noticably absent-- as were all the typical instructors, yudansha...etc..
Apparently he met ron (brown belt) at class tonight but said he was sick, so Ron taught class tonight. I would wager he's not taught the adult class often-- if never at all, because he seemed a little nervous. I thought he did well though, considering the short notice.

To be brief, as I am pretty tired--

Quick stretch, forward and backwards rolls across the mat, shikko. Since Scott Sensei has not been teaching Thursday nights, we have not done much of the rolling practice, so I was happy Ron focused on that in the beginning.


katatetori//

ikkyo (omote/ura)
W/Klara

kotegaeshi
W/Charlie

iriminage
W/Steven

katatetori ai hanmi//

ikkyo (omote/ura)
W/4th kyu

iriminage
W/Don (sort of a newbie... practiced aikido and jiu jitsu about 15 years ago.)

shihonage (omote/ura-- was demo uke for this one.)
W/Oscar.

After break, Ron had us practice kokyunage throws. Whee! :)
W/Bill

Did three katatetori variations. (all omote/ura)
Swing out, extend uke's arm and use your arm as a jack underneath uke's then step forward and throw. Ura involed a slide in, pivot and step back.

Next was a simple step forward with palms up in front of you. Ura same as above. (was demo uke for this one too)

Next was an ikkyo version.

Finally we did a kaitenage variation. (for those of you actually keeping count, that's 4, not 3... see? I am tired!)

Overall, it was a fun class, mainly geared towards 5th kyu test requirements.
Ron seemed to explain things really well-- especially iriminage and kotegaeshi. It helped that he gave good pointers on how to be an effective uke.

Wish I could go into detail, but I'm shot.