Tuesdays training - Iriminage

Beginners training today. Daniel together with Nathalie and Romolo took care about us students today. Markus was training with Reinhard for their dan tests next saturday themselfs.

Again quite crowded tatami zone again today: 10 Students! And that on the small tatami zone (there are two in our dojo). I think the time comes us aikidokas get the big tatami zone back from the kickboxers :)

Todays theme was iriminage. The beginners had to learn the first steps whereas we (a bit more advanced students) had to perform all different iriminages: ai hanmi katate tori, gyaku hanmi katate tori, gyaku hanmi katate riote tori etc. As I remember, it was the first time for me performing iriminage on gyaku hanmi at all! Quite good that i could train the first parts with romolo. He's really very patient and takes care of showing it slowly to us students. Unfortunately I could not throw him at all as he still has problems with his knees (he's over 60 years old and had 4 operations on his legs but is still training aikido twice a week, respect!). Therefore sensei daniel came 2-3 times to be my uke and i could throw him quite good.

Got quite a better feeling on iriminage now. I think it's getting better and better for the tests. BTW: Daniel mentioned to make the tests in december and we should think about when we have time for it... ...I'll keep you updated ;-)

Yours,

Lemy