Having missed class last Wednesday due to traffic, and with Mateusz not showing up on Friday due to work, I looked forward to today’s class with much anticipation. We did not practice at our usual place though. Despite this all was well. We focused on the different ways of doing gyaku-hanmi katate-dori shiho-nage. So we started with the ura version, then moved to gedan, which is pretty tricky. Statically, tori opens uke’s elbow like in kaiten-nage, but instead of moving in steps forward with the back leg and back with the forward leg such that they are standing perpendicularly to each other. At the same time, (this is the tricky part) tori does a forward cut such that tori ends up beside him/her. The rest is the normal shiho-nage that we know.
This can also be applied when the attack is yokomen-uchi. Initially we used to step back and stretch uke. But what if uke is really good? Then you can try gedan.
Aiki-ken (合氣剣) was as usual, where we practiced shomen-uchi and a few other basic techniques and finished with Chiba Sensei’s first 2 katas(型).
There will be class on Friday, just in case someone heard some rumors that there might be no class. Again, there definitely will be aikido class on Friday at the Japanese Embassy. Be prepared for a series of more classes since Piotr Sensei will be here in like a week, so we have a lot to do guys!
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