Kotageshi / Shihonage - Tuesdays Training

Most of the advanced aikidokas from our dojo are on a stage with walther oelschleger (see previous post) this week. So, we were not many on the tatami today.

Reinhard (brown belt) took the lead. We had again 1 visiting girl for whom it was the first aikido training.

We begun with a lot of stretching. While performing our ukemis, reinhard showed the beginning girl how to roll correctly whereas we (the rest) performed again the whole bunch of rollings all over the length of the tatami zone. I still have some problems with breathing while doing the rollings since I had again a short moment of blackness :) But i'm working hard at that on each training...

Kotageshi. Both positive and negative. Did it first with Stefan, for whom it was about the 3rd training session. He really hardly hold my hand, was good to perform this technique with a beginner. It's always hard if you do it with someone who knows what comes but doesn't want to fall ;-) I have to keep in mind when doing this negative, to not pull with my arm but using my hips for it. We changed partner several times.

Shihonage. Quite funny to do it with mago (begun around the same time as I did but had to pause because of some injury) since we always tried to turn around as uke while the other one was trying to go over under the arm. At the end we nearly managed to perform it without losing control of uke.

At the end, julien (yellow belt) explained us again what we'll have to perform for the yellow belt: ikkio (kata), kotageshi, shihonage and some alternative ikkio (all techniques). It's good, i've done all of them at least once. Now i can work on them.

Yours,

Lemy