Tuesday, April 30, 2013 session at the JICC Conference Room

Tuesday sessions are becoming more intense and this session in particular was breathtaking!

I found Jason Sempai and Moa Sempai warming up and I joined in and we capped up the warm up session with Mae and Ushiro Ukemi from Tachi Waza.

Moa Sempai took over the two hours and she focused mainly on using the hips which reminds me of the famous quote by the late Kungu Fu master Bruce Lee "put your hip into it".

Here is a rundown of the techniques that we went through:

-Ushiro Ryote Dori: Sankyo(Omote & Ura),Juji Garami and Kote Gaeshi respectively.

-Ai Hanmi Katatedori Koshinage(without the throwing part).

-Ryote Dori Kokyu Ho.

-Katatedori Kokyu Ho.

-The basics of Tai No Tenkan Ho.

-Morote Dori Kokyu Ho.

-Ryo Kata Dori Sankyo(Omote & Ura) from both Tachi Waza and Suwari Waza respectively.

-Kokyu Ho Kokyu Dosa.

NEXT SESSION:FRIDAY, MAY 3 @ THE JICC MAIN HALL.

Kenya Aikido Federation on facebook

I just came across the Kenya Aikido Federation facebook page over the weekend. I guess it was formed during Piotr BOROWSKI Sensei's recent tour of East Africa.
Here is their link:
http://www.facebook.com/Kenya.Aikido.Federation?fref=ts

Below is the front page caption of their recently drafted constitution:

Friday, April 26, 2013 session at the JICC main hall

Usually the Friday session is my favourite for two main reasons:The first one is that I always get time to warm up before the session kicks off and the second reason is that it is usually fast paced and this particular one was no exception.Ben Sempai took us through warm up followed by Mae and Ushiro Ukemi including the dreaded Gyaku Ukemi.

BEN SEMPAI:

-Katatedori: Kokyu Nage(opening for Soto Kaiten Nage).

-Ushiro Ryo Kata Dori Kokyu Nage.

-Ryo Kata Dori Kokyu Nage.

MOA SEMPAI:

-Katatedori: Tai No Tenkan Ho.

-Kata Dori Nikyo Ura.

-Ai Hanmi Katatedori Ikkyo Ura (featuring a different version of unbalancing Uke).

We are really learning a lot of Aikido versions from our resident Swedish Aikidoka Moa who apparently was in Japan the past few months enriching her Aikido know how. 

NEXT SESSION:TUESDAY, APRIL 30 @ THE JICC CONFERENCE ROOM.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 session at the JICC conference room

This was one unique session in that our own Swedish Aikidoka,Moa took us through the last quarter with some techniques up her sleeve or is it 'up her gi'......

Moa kicked off the two hour session with some warm up exercises before I took over for about ten minutes with some additional exercises then Jason Sempai took us through the following:

-Shomen Uchi Sankyo Omote,Kote Gaeshi and Irimi Nage(Omote & Ura) respectively.

-Tsuki Kote Gaeshi.

As mentioned earlier, Moa took us through the following:

-Ryote Dori Tenchi Nage.

-Morote Dori Kokyu Ho.

She wound up the two hour session with Kokyu Ho Kokyu Dosa.

NEXT SESSION:FRIDAY, APRIL 26 @ THE JICC MAIN HALL.

***P.S.ACCORDING TO THE JAPAN EMBASSY CALENDAR, FRIDAY,MAY 3 WAS TO BE A HOLIDAY BUT YESTERDAY I CLARIFIED WITH MR.FUTAKI AND HE INFORMED ME THAT SINCE THE EMBASSY WAS CLOSED ON APRIL 9, THE HOLIDAY THAT WAS TO BE OBSERVED ON MAY 3 WAS ANNULLED THUS WE SHALL HAVE OUR USUAL AIKIDO SESSION ON THAT DAY.***

Friday, April 19, 2013 session at the JICC main hall

The two hour session was conducted by our Japanese colleague Naoki UOZAWA and he took us through a wonderful session that was equally sweaty despite the drizzle outside.

After warming up and some Mae and Ushiro Ukemi from both Suwari Waza and Tachi Waza respectively, Naoki Sempai took us through the following:

Katatedori stance

-Tai no Tenkan Ho.

-Shiho Nage Omote & Ura.

-Kokyu Nage version.

-Ude Kimenage.

-Kote Gaeshi.

Ryote Dori:

-Ikkyo Omote & Ura.

Morote Dori:

-Ikkyo Omote.

Yokomen Uchi:

-Irimi Nage(breathtaking version!)

The session came to a close with Kokyu Ho Kokyu Dosa and Haishin Undo.

NEXT SESSION:TUESDAY, APRIL 23 @ THE JICC CONFERENCE ROOM.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 session at the JICC Conference Room

It was quite a while since I conducted an Aikido session the last time being around October last year before PAZAT Sensei arrived in Kenya and I was thrilled to get another opportunity of doing so.I arrived 20 minutes late due to the usual traffic chaos in Neighroby but I was glad to find Kevin Kohai taking the others through a warm up session.

Below is what we went through during the two hour session (after going through Mae and Ushiro Ukemi in both Suwari Waza and Tachi Waza) all techniques being executed from the Ai Hanmi Katatedori stance:

-Ikkyo Omote & Ura respectively.

-Nikyo Omote in both the long and short versions.

-Sankyo Omote.

-Kote Gaeshi Omote.

-Ryote Dori Kiri Otoshi.

NEXT SESSION: FRIDAY, APRIL 19 @ THE JICC MAIN HALL.

Friday, April 12, 2013 session at the JICC main hall

Ben Sempai was in charge of the two hours and after a good warm up session, we went through the below mentioned attacks/techniques:

From the Ai Hanmi Katatedori stance:

-Ikkyo, Nikyo and Sankyo all in both Omote and Ura versions respectively.

From the Katatedori stance:

-Kokyu Nage whereby Uke comes charging at Tori at full speed then Tori steps aside and guides Uke down ending up with Mae Ukemi.

From Ryo Katadori:

-Kokyu Nage.

Lastly, there was a Shomen Uchi attack then Tori was to perform various techniques such as Irimi Nage Omote or Ura.

 NEXT SESSION:TUESDAY, APRIL 16 @ THE JICC CONFERENCE ROOM.

Apologies

Hi everyone.
I know we were meant to go for drinks yesterday after class at Shebeen in Upper Hill.
Dennis texted me after 9.00pm asking me what happened.
I was working out of town and wasn't able to make it to class.
I apologise and hope to see you in class on Tuesday.
Thankyou November for wishing us well.

Friday, April 5, 2013 session at the JICC main hall

It was a unique session in the sense that Sensei gave Jason Sempai the go ahead to take over the first hour and it was as exciting as usual.

FIRST HOUR(JASON SEMPAI)

All techniques below were executed from the Katatedori stance:

-Ikkyo Omote.

-Sokumen Irimi Nage.

-Shiho Nage Ura.

SECOND HOUR(PAZAT SENSEI)

-Shomen Uchi Ikkyo (Omote & Ura) from both Suwari Waza and Tachi Waza respectively.

-Shomen Uchi Kote Gaeshi.

Tuesday, April 9 having being declared a public holiday, I guess we will not have the Tuesday Aikido session though I was not able to confirm it with Mr. Futaki of the JICC.

NEXT SESSION:FRIDAY, APRIL 12 AT THE JICC MAIN HALL.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 session at the JICC Conference Room

It was raining outside but that did not dampen my Aikido spirit.Furthermore,I had strained my back during the Easter break but still that too did not hamper me from attending the Aikido session.It reminds me of Lothar Matthaus, one of Germany's best soccer players ever who played in the 1986 World Cup final despite suffering from a broken arm.

PAZAT Sensei was in the dojo and he took us through the below mentioned attacks/techniques:

Katatedori:

-Sokumen Irimi Nage.

-Irimi Nage Ura.

-Kote Gaeshi Omote.

-Kiri Otoshi.

Yokomen Uchi:

-Shiho Nage Ura.

-Ude Kimenage.

-Kokyu Nage.

-Kote Gaeshi.

NEXT SESSION:FRIDAY, APRIL 5 @ THE JICC MAIN HALL.