This post should cover all the sessions from last Wednesday, but due to my poor memory i will only stick to what appealed to me, or rather what left an impression. We have gone through a number of techniques, most of them not very straight-forward, even for me. By this i mean that the movement is difficult because the techniques have mostly been variations of the basics. Attack has been everything from morote-dori, to kata-dori, shomen-uchi to yokomen-uchi. Basically we have been going wild, within reasonable limits. Take Friday for instance. We did ai-hanmi nikyo, shiho-nage, kote-gaeshi and kokyu-ho. These are basic techniques, right? What was different was the opening coz if i recall well, the attack was ai-hanmi katate-dori. Tori had to open with a tenkan very much close to the opening for ai-hanmi ikkyo/nikyo.
Yesterday we had an interesting session which i am sure will remain long in the minds of whoever was paying attention. We had a session like no other where we had to deal with a chudan-tsuki attack. So we had techniques like gyaku-hanmi kote-gaeshi, ai-hanmi ikkyo, and variations of irimi-nage and kokyu-ho. Then there was a variation? of kata-dori shiho-nage where tori has to literally ATTACK uke's elbow with the chin. This is not the first time we have covered this technique but it sends chills down my spine every time i see it. Just like koshi-nage. Or a perfectly executed sankyo, irimi-nage. Anyway, some aikido techniques just look overly lethal from an observer's point of view.
The reason for all these not very palatable techniques (for beginners and intermediate guys) was the upcoming event on saturday. I can't wait to see how it goes tomorrow.
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