This site is just a chance to write down some thoughts and ideas that come to mind as i learn tomiki ryu aikido, as well as catalo..
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Ponderings
Published on 2011-11-13 16:28:00
I've spent most of the morning thinking about some aikido stuff. It has mainly centered around initial off-balances, ushiro ate, and waki gatame. I think it would be fun to just have a class about the little brush off bump from inside the arm, the one that happens on the outside that "drops uke into the hole" as the intro to quite a bit of junana, the "cow catcher" as a brush off and using ushiro ate and waki gatame as the two ways to finish all these off balances. Then some multiple uke randori
In case you were wondering.
Published on 2011-11-09 18:32:00
It has been some time since my last post. This could very well be the last one you see. Class eventually declined into a series of nobody showing up leaving me to sit in the park, wait 15 minutes, then go home. I made attempts to get students to show but after weeks of no shows it felt like i was only begging. So for now, the little study group I had named Konwakai is defunct.I guess the real problem is I don't believe i'll be restarting it.I recently tried to demo for my shodan with dishearteni
Seeing where we're at
Published on 2011-08-26 11:33:00
Wednesday was something of an off day for class. It was a rainy afternoon, which seems to keep most of the students away. Even though the usual back up plan is to get under the large pavilion in the middle of the park it seemed to be overrun with people. I decided to wait and see if anyone would show up just in case and told Jesse we'd see if we couldn't get something accomplished despite everything else. After wandering the park and finding a gazebo that would do the trick we had a small class
