Wednesday training - preparing for the demo

It was, as always, a good training over lunch at wednesday. It's always good to leave the office to get some other thoughts and turn off (well, not really, but kind of) your brain. It's so relaxing!

We're still preparing for the demo. Now we got 15min to demonstrate aikido aside of judo, ju-jutsu, kickboxing and tae-bo. Daniel prepared a plan for what we're going to show. We will be 5 people demonstrating aikido, whereas I'm the bloodiest beginner of all of them. There's daniel (of course), markus (2nd dan), rosemarie (??. dan), martial (4th kyu) and me (still 5th kyu). Daniel will show together with markus some jo and bokken katas (I think that's going to be very interesting, as markus also teaches iaido). Rosemarie with makrus the whole kata forms (ikkyo, nikkyo, sankyo, yonkyo, gokyo). I will show some techniques together with martial, whereas I will perform the easier ones (katate-tori irimi nage, katate-tori shiho-nage, ushiro-ryote-tori kotegaeshi and ushiro-ryote-tori kokyu-nage) and martial the more complex ones (yokomen-uchi kote-gaeshi, yokomen-uchi tenbim-nage, tsuki kaiten-nage and tsuki tenchi-nage). I will be uke for martial and he will be mine.

I'm still struggling with uchiro-ryote-tori kokyu-nage. We perform this in a special manner (see picture) and still I got some troubles. But today I was able to make much progress in this. Both daniel and ruedi sensei took the time to train with me for this special technique.

I will go to the training at saturday and (hopefully) martial will be there too, so we can train those techniques one more time before the demonstration (April, 29th).

Yours Lemy