Beginners Class at Goan Gym

Essentially we covered 3 techniques; ikkyo, kokyu-ho, and irimi-nage. With Ikkyo, the challenge is in remembering the whole process and not skipping a single step; meet the attack, tai-sabaki and kuzushi. These 3 steps are the toughest but most basic in any martial art. With kokyu-ho, the movement comes from the hips. A common mistake is getting too much carried away with making uke fall and forgetting that you are the one who should make the latter fall,hence the lost contact. We were shown the conditioning excercise for kokyu-ho and it would be best to remember this always. The irimi-nage versions covered were gedan and chudan. I had a problem with the gedan version;my hand always gets entangled in uke's elbow. Talk about self-immobilization...