Aikido comming from Bokken - Wednesday Training

Long time no training. I was on holiday for one week and after that I was ill for another week. So, this was my first training after 2 weeks. I was quite excited to go again. Missed the training a lot :(

Daniel Senesi took the lead. Ruedi, Reinhard (he's actually preparing for the 1st dan), monika, mago and the other stefan were participating as well.

Today, Daniel focused in showing us that most aikido techniques can be done with bokken as well. Most of the movements are very similar when using bokken and it gives a better idea on how the technique should be performed correctly. Becaus with the bokken you have to focus much more on how to behave on an attack when keeping in mind that the bokken is a replacement for the katana (sword) and could cut you if you misbehave.

We focused on irimi today and it was good since i've still got trouble with this technique depending on the partner. With some of them, i got it quite good but with others (especially with other beginners like me) it is very hard to perform it correctly.

Funny, at the beginning of the training (i was the first one there), daniel asked me again when i started with aikido. I told him it was at the beginning of may. And he meant, ok, then you are going to be tested for yellow belt in november together with mago (who started in may too). He meant i should come more often on saturday together with mago so we can prepare ourselfs for this test in the after class lessions. Yay!

Yours,

Lemy