#nikkyo

[randomoverwatt]

Morote dori, every Monday

Regular class, I was able to pull a nikkyo out of a morote dori escape, by cutting low after the tenkan. Plus, some touch work "opening the door". I'm still finding myself halting sometimes during these drills. Helping with the beginners, they got all the way through ai katate dori sankyo. The tensest one at the start has some semblance of relaxed shoulders now, with a week to go. Hard work to resist exclaiming "AWESOME!!" out loud. Thought I posted this on Monday, turns out I have an active imagination. Off to the dojo I go now!

[randomoverwatt]

Closer

Taka-san tested for yonkyu tonight, with me as uke. He nailed everything, and my glasses went flying at one point. I managed to keep correct spacing and timing, getting up with immediate, committed attacks. I thought my maai (spacing) was too far out a few times when I was trying to deliver yokomen uchi strikes. Taka adapted, I guess. Amazing, though, was Taka's irimi nage. "Sit DOWN, brother" even though I'm about 20 cm taller. I guess I should remind sensei that I want to test, that my injury is in the past.

We had one visitor from north island, and one new aikidoka who just finished the beginners class sequence yesterday.

There was a whole lot of soto tenkan, including one fabulous sukashiwaza - uke attempts katate dori, nage draws uke forward with a soto tenkan, followed by kokyu ho breath throw. Done right, it's like you tripped backwards climbing up stairs - you're asking "how?". The challenge of the night? Hanmi handachi kata dori nikkyo. From a seated position, you can't really get palm of the second hand over uke's forearm, so you just hook your fingertips from inside and underneath. The tricky part is that you can't "grab" the forearm, you have to keep the thumb tucked out of the way or your fingers won't be able to reach. It's a hard habit to break.

[budobabes]

Really nice aikido nikkyo application. It appears to be used all over many many schools' websites advertising "womens' self-defense" but I didn't run down the origin/photographer.

[beauty-and-aikido]

Aikido Today

Alternative warm up held by senpai, including workout elements like running in push-up position and jumpups, groiners :) I am planning to get a jumping rope for the spring and exercise some more in the weekends in the fresh air. 

Then we split into two groups. The ones preparing for the exam to the back and we came to the front. I felt a bit sad again that I did not register for an exam. 

In the front we did kya waza until we dropped.

Then also from kya waza:

nikkyo

sumiotoshi

kote gaeshi

koshinage

Basically what we did in the front was also material for what would come on the 4th kyu exam, more or less. Just not from kya waza. However, this time sensei took a lot of time to explain kote gaeshi, and I think I understood it now once and for all. He was using the sandwich metaphore on how to first position the hands in order to get a beautiful kote gaeshi grab. I felt like he was sharing some kind of insider truth about the technique with us and I felt happy. He almost never explains, just shows, so this was a special moment. I hope my kote gaeshis will get better from this point on! Still not big friends with koshinage but it is getting better also :)

:) happy day!

[beauty-and-aikido]

Aikido Yesterday

Power warm up as usual. I felt my abbs numb. It was great because these days I have a lot of tension and aggression in me. So it calmed me down to the point I got rid of all that by the time we got to the techniques.

We repeated the kihon with the basic attacks and how to break them:

the more difficult attacks: morotedori, katadori menuchi, katadori kubinage, muna dori.

We did in suwari waza:

Nikkyo

Tachi waza from kata dori attack:

nikkyo ura

irimi nage

I did the irimi nage part with a big tall guy about 90 kgs. It was difficult, but he made sure to tell we whenever my technique was efficient. He was a lot cooperating. From about 20 to 50 throws I managed to do 2, 3 properly, and all were on the right side, obviously.

Next aims for me:

more relaxed movements

pay attention to the tegatana (Sensei pointed out I am not holnding my hands high enough)

work on my left more, start on the left maybe, get more confident about my left, don't just think of it as my weak part but as a part that has a lot of potential to improve

I need training so bad, I wish we had some today, too. I need a boxing sac!!! I want to buy a jumping chord in spring and jump in the garden in between training days. I don't want to overdo it either, but right now I need it a lot.

[beauty-and-aikido]

Aikido Training Yesterday

We started with the usual warm up. There were some shaolin kung-fu elements in it also like push up holding the partner’s ankle while he is underneath holding your ankles and in the meantime pushing you upwards. I was laughing my ass off was not really performing properly. There were various other exercises also that implied using each other’s weight to warm up the muscles. We usually do crawling also. I was crawling on my back and got some bones back in place J

After a long warm up, we stretched. Still not going too strong on that part. Maybe some day…

The techniques we did from katatedori:

Ude kime nage – the pushing the elbow in negative version

Nikyo kokyunage – I really liked this one. Nice start with nikkyo and a quick kokyunage that you can throw beautifully

Fujita quick kote gaeshi –  you don’t step in like for the normal one. Just a quick version of a kote gaeshi, but we did not have enough space for this one. Two huge guys were banging each other to the ground next to us so we kept it slow and studied the movements. It is also pretty difficult to fall from it because you are held in a kote gaeshi and your arm is straight and twisted.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s training. Probably again from katatedori.

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Hitohiro Saito.

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