Wednesday Training Session

Today we were only 3. Ruedi (4th dan), me (u know, beginners white belt :) and martin (i think its called 4th kyu? the brown belt?). Since our sensei daniel is on vacation, sensei ruedi took the lead.

At the beginning some more stretching exercises. Ruedi really takes most care about the head party. Got a good feeling anyhow. Afterwards he explained a bit more of the kokyu (breathing techniques) we're doing at the beginning of each training session.

Then we did some 180° turns and used them for some hand-grabbing techniques (since i'm not yet familiar to the naming, sorry for that, I think it's called dori?) from the front with both hands, then with one hand and finally from behind. Since martin is not the youngest :) and he has some problems with his knees, it was not always that easy for him.

I remarked a big problem of mine: Got troubles in forward rolling. I really have to keep in mind to keep the leg nearer to the uke (attacker) behind the other one. Had some dangerous rollings today just because of that. Unfortunately nothing happened :) Ruedi helped me a lot in this today. I have to remember that for the next times until its automated...

At the end we did then some randadori (defending many attackers) together whereas not using any techniques, just to quibble around (irimi, tai sabaki). Whereas the two ukes used different attacking techinques: shomen, yokomen, tsuki a.s.o. This was really fun and i got a bit more the feeling of real life than just repeating some techniques slowly.

As usual: Really relaxed after the training. Aikido still is what i was looking for.

Yours,

Lemy