We had an interesting array of techniques for this session. First we started with a variation of shihonage from a gyakuhanmi attack. This later turned into a kokyuho technique. The difference is that in the former, the held hand strikes the elbow of the holding hand from inside. With the latter, the strike is from outside with an irimi tenkan. The last technique was one we had never done before: ushirowaza eridori. Imagine a person behind you pointing a weapon at your back. This is the attack. From this we were able to do both shihonage and kokyuho. An interesting twist was added when uke was to hold a bokken. This resulted in some very painful dislodging technique that could easily break the elbow if done correctly, or at least I felt that my elbow was about to snap into several pieces.
Maybe it is worth noting that when a weapon is pointed at you there is no time to do these techniques as leisurely as we were doing them. I seriously think it will take countless hours of practice before anyone can understand the complexities of a technique like eridori.
Anyway, the jo session again was spent practicing the first part of sansho 1. A preview of the second part was shown but since there was not much time left, we had to call it a day at that.
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