Friday, September 2, 2011 session at the Japan Information and Culture Centre

As is customary with most Fridays,the session began with warm up exercises followed by Mae Ukemi from Tachi Waza.Immediately after that,the technique that set the ball rolling was Ryote Tori Tenchi Nage which I always seem to have mastered only to realise that it takes a lot of practice to master the technique.

The techniques that followed were based on the Chudan Tsuki attack and were as follows:

a)Irimi Nage

b)Kokyu Ho

c)Ushiro Kiri Otoshi

d)Rokyo

e)Two variations of chokes(I guess a choke is Kubishime)one which involved knocking the air out of Uke's neck arteries and the second one involved extending the arm as if performing a Kokyu Nage attack then Tori wraps his arm around Uke's neck and locks in bringing Tori to the ground and making him tap out by placing his elbow on Tori's thigh.

The other techniques that completed the Friday session were Gyaku Hanmi Katate dori Sumi Otoshi and Ai Hanmi Katate dori Shiho Nage which is one of my favourite techniques.....

Lovely stuff!