Sunday, November 6, 2011

Friday, November 4, 2011 session at the Japan Information and Culture Centre hall

The day's curtain raiser was the usual warm up exercises followed by Mae and Ushiro Ukemi from both Suwari Waza and Tachi Waza and it all went well except for my usual blunders here and there especially executing Mae Ukemi over two persons which I seriously need to practise thoroughly not forgetting the other version of Ushiro Ukemi where one lands on both feet which was really awesome.

The day's techniques were as follows:-
From Suwari Waza:
-Shomen Uchi Ikkyo (Omote and Ura)
-Shomen Uchi Nikyo (Omote and Ura).

From the Yokomen Uchi attack,there was:
-Sankyo (Omote and Ura)
-Nikyo (Omote and Ura).

To add onto the above techniques there was:
-Ai Hanmi Katate dori Shiho Nage Ura.
-Ryote dori Tenchi Nage (Omote and Ura).

Sensei once again stressed the importance of continuity on the part of Tori, i.e. Tori should not add any of his energy into Uke's attack but rather use Uke's energy to execute a technique.

It was a superb two hours and I look forward to the next session on Monday, November 7...

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