On the knees - Wednesday Training

Ruedi and Daniel Sensei were back from the stage with walther oelschlaeger.
Therefore, daniel took the lead today.

Beneath those two, monika, me and reinhard were in class today.

Ruedi and Daniel came back with many new ideas from the stage. So we practiced many techniques they just learned while the stage.

At the beginning shinkokyu and stretching, done very fast today.

After warmup, some very slooooow ukemis on the knees. Whereas not rolling over but slapping down.

Quite good: We did some techniques where uke (standing) pushes nage (on knees) on one hand. Nage turns around ukes power and throws him in front of him. The good thing here was to get the feeling of turning around power (which seems to be very essential in aikido).

Then we did a special kotegaeshi (felt better for my knees :). I had to repeat this several times until i remarked the speciality of this technique: Instead of pushing the hand of uke, you pull it away from his arm. Since this is really an advanced technique, i don't (yet) bother about it. We did this several times.

At the end we did 2 different Jo Techniques in randadori style (all 5 together: 1 nage, 4 ukes). Whereas all ukes come in with shomen at the same time! Imagine that! Quite funny to do that. I begin to adore training Jo techniques. It's always much fun.

Quite an advanced training today (I was the only white belted aikidoka), no wonder I had several troubles meanawhile. But I don't bother about it. At the end, it was a good training for me because of repeating the process of learning complete new (to me) techniques.

Relaxed and a good feeling. Sad, but this was the only training this week :(

Yours,

Lemy