Tuesdays Training

Today, Markus took the lead again. Since tuesdays training is the beginners training day, we were only 3 dans, 4 yellow belts and me as the only white belt.

At the beginning again rollings and ukemis as a warmup.

Training was very good. I focused on irimi ikkio (irmi is entering into the punsh (shomen here), which is very essential in aikido and ikkio is a holding technique) today which i will have to show on the kata for the yellow belt. Pascal, the visiting dan aikidoka, normally training in luzern, gave me many instructions and tips on how to improve this technique while the others were training irimi nikkio (which will be relevant later for me: for the orange belt). The tipps were not relevant for the kata (there it has to be performed in a certain way) but for real application of this technique. He helped me a lot and i've learned so much, i understand the technique much better now.

Then we learned a technique (damn, i've forgot the name again!) where you surpass a tsuki punsh and go behind your enemy where you pull him backwards where he loses his balance. Quite impressive and looks really easy. But timing is everything here. If you're too late, you cannot apply this technique. I had to do that very slow in order to make it correct. Again, pascal was a big help here.

At the end again some randadori (3 vs. 1) without using techniques, just quibbling around. I did that with 2 women and had to back off a bit :)

Ah, i was in tuesdays training today because i think i will not be able to go to training at saturday because i'm going out at friday (will be late). And since i intend to train at least twice a week, i decided to not go to unihockey (floorball) training but to the aikido.

Much fun, much relaxing. Feel good! :-)

Yours,

Lemy