Considering Daniel has covered the last hour of the class, I'll try and remember what we covered on the first hour.
After the warm-ups, the classes started with ukemi exercises both mae and ushiro in suwariwaza and tachiwaza. But that was the easy part. Two more ukemis were introduced; Gyaku ukemi (left foot forward and roll over your right arm and vice versa) and yoko ukemi (rolling sideways!!)
In yoko ukemi, one is supposed to roll sideways on a straight line, but most of us....no, ALL of us were doing something from "our own worlds", rolling to an angle almost doing mae ukemi. Well didn't work this time, maybe next time.
Next followed shomen uchi ikkyo both ura and omote, not bad, but a little more practice and we will be ready to go!
Finally on the 1st hour we did shomen uchi sumi otoshi whereby tori has to keep arms straight but not stiff and throw uke downwards to his weak spot, the imaginary triangle.
1 comment:
There are innumerable ways of doing ukemi and we haven't covered even a fraction of them yet. So don't you go imagining that yoko ukemi is the worst you have tried.
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