A JAPANESE CULTURAL DAY HELD AT THE JAPAN CONSULATE -KENYA

SENSEI'S PIORT UKEMI FACTORY

14TH AUGUST 2018,SESSION AT JICC HALL

SESSION GUIDED BY SEMPAI JOSHUA

all attacks were from katatori,the executions were as follows
katatori shihonage
katatori kotegaeshi
katatori hijikime nikkyo osae
uchikaiten sankyo 
 also applications such aihamni katatori nikyo kotegaeshi
gyakuhamni katatori aikigoshi(tenkan irimi)



next session on thursday 16th august 2018 at 5pm

the aiki spirit

The spirit of aiki

The tedious, repetitious and monotonous learning routine tests the student's commitment and will power,but it also reduces stubbornness, curbs willfulness and eliminates bad habits of the body and mind. In the process,his or her real strength,character and potential begin to emerge.the spiritual mastery is inseparable from the psychological but begins only after an intensive and lengthy period of training.

Yagyu mumenori himself stressed on overcoming the ego through self discipline in the art of swordsmanship. In a treatise known as "the household transmission on the art of fighting he writes that the goal of training in the martial arts is to overcome six kinds of diseases:

The desire for victory,
The desire to rely on technical cunning,
The desire to show off,
The desire to psychologically overwhelm the opponent,
The desire to remain passive in order to wait for an opening and
The desire to become free of these diseases.

The egoless self is open,flexible, supple, fluid and dynamic in body,mind and spirit.
Such a way thinking is the essence of all the martial and cultural ways in the Japanese tradition.

THE 56th ALL JAPAN AIKIDO DEMONSTRATION : SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2018

Thursday, April 12, 2018 session at the JICC Conference Room

Once again it was Ben Sempai who took us through the day's session that kicked off as usual with warm up exercises followed by the basics of Mae and Ushiro Ukemi from Suwari Waza.

The focus was a Shomen Uchi attack and how to safely counter the attack.

We went through Shomen Uchi Ikkyo Omote & Ura which laid the foundation for other techniques from the said attack.

It was Zagi Kokyu Ho and Haishin Undo that wrapped up the day's session.

NEXT SESSION: TUESDAY, APRIL 17 @ THE SAME VENUE

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 session at the JICC Conference Room

Ben Sempai guided us through the entire session that kicked off with warm up drills followed by a series of Ukemi rolls before embarking on the day's agenda which was the basics of 'opening up' Uke during an attack.

We went through the opening of Ikkyo, Nikyo, Sankyo, Yonkyo and Gokyo from a Katatedori stance the focus being on unbalancing Uke and executing a technique from a static stance.

Zagi Kokyu Ho and Haishin Undo wrapped up the session.

NEXT SESSION: THURSDAY, APRIL 12 @ THE SAME VENUE