Thursday, May 27, 2010

One week seminar with T.K. Chiba Sensei in Poland

For all of you who might be lucky enough to attend - the registration for one week LSA 2010 has just begun. Please go to seminar webpage for more information.

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Friday, May 21, 2010

Friday, May 21st 2010

Well, today we had 20 people trying their best at Aikido.

We got more familiar with shomen-uchi attack. Then we added irimmi and tenkan entrance into the attack and then tried to understand contact between partners with shomen-uchi irimi and tenkan.

Please remember - shomen-uchi is from the top of your head. You strike oponent on his forehead trying to cut him into two symmetrical halves. When attacking shomen-uchi please, please, please - keep your elbows down! Do not create any opening!

And then we moved to shomen-uchi kote-gaeshi. Then we tried to approach irimi-nage, but instead full technique we moved to shomen-uchi kiri-otoshi.

Very difficult techniques. But with time and persistence we will be able to grasp them... I hope ;-)

Friday, May 14, 2010

New techniques on Friday, May 14th

Today we tried tachi-waza ai-hamni nikkyo omote, then moved to ura version. It was challenging to alternate both versions at the same time. It was very interesting training. We got to meet several new people. Welcome ;-)

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Last Friday of April

After planned week in Poland and another unplanned being stranded in Warsaw waiting for volcanic ash cloud to pass I finally arrived back in Nairobi and finally we had a class.

This Friday we tried some suwari-waza ukemi, then remembered gyaku-hamni ikkyo omote in tachi-waza. Then we explored shikko (for the first time) and then we tried to perform the same technique (gyaku-hamni ikkyo omote-waza) in suwari waza. Afterwards we did ai-hamni kote-gaeshi omote in tachi-waza.