Iriminage - Wednesday Training

Today again, ruedi sensei took the lead.
Monika (blue belt) and Reinhard (brown belt) were there as well.

As warumup our kokyu exercise and afterwards some stretching. Really fast done today.

Today we trained mainly iriminage.

First we repeated the entering technique without doing anything further. I have to keep in mind to get the correct food in front in order to be on time. Quite good to practice such basics again.

As first, uke entereing with tsuki. Then uke entering with shomen. Both are quite basic irminage throws and i got it quite good today. (well, sometimes i forgot my legs and did not move correctly... ...very dangerous if you think about it ;)
Then with a tsuki to the head. This is a bit more tricky, you'll have to load up uke on your arm which leads in a bit different move then. Most problem for me was changing the side of ukes arm. Had really problems making this smoothly. I had to repeat it several times veeeery sloooowww, then I got it :) Ruedi even showed us another approach to such an attack. Just take ukes arm shortly and push a bit in the direction of the uke... ...no way he can handle that.

If you wonder how iriminage move looks, take a look at this animated picture.

I still felt my wrist today in the training. But fortunately we did no shihonage today :) the wrist is not much used in iriminage...

Yours,

Lemy