Recap of last night session:
Warmup & stretches
White Belts: Randori No Kata 1-5 (focus on Gedan Ate and Ushiro Ate).
Coloured Belts: Randori No Kata, techniques 1 to 14
tanto kakarigeiko (light freeplay with knives)
Category: Lessons
18th October lesson, beginners class
Recap of last night session:
Warmup & stretches
The first 3 of Go hon no Kuzushi (Five Balance Breaking techniques)
Those are the main balance breaking techniques found in the Randori No Kata
Oshi Taoshi (tech. no 6)
Hiki Taoshi (tech. no 8 )
Waki Gatame (tech. no 10)
Shiho Nage (tech. no 14)
Sumi Otoshi (tech. no 16)
White Belts:
Sutdy of Tegatana Dosa, sections 1 to 3
Unsoku and Tegatana Dosa need to be practiced at home in order to make significant progress.
For reference, students can look at the video posted here:
http://www.genryukan.co.uk/2010/09/07/tandoku-undo/
Yellow Belts:
Randori No Kata, techniques 1 to 4
We have an excellent reference video from Shaun Hoddy Sensei:
http://www.genryukan.co.uk/2010/10/19/shaun-hoddy-randori-no-kata-1-5/
4th October, kata session
Recap of last night session:
Warmup & stretches
White belts:
1- Shomen ate
2- Aigamae Ate
3 – Gyakugamae Ate
Yellow and above:
11 – Kote Hineri
12 – Kote gaeshi
13 – Tenkai Kote Hineri
14 – Shiho Nage
15 – Mae Otoshi
Followed by freeplay practice against varied strikes.
20th September – ukemi session
Recap of last night session:
Warmup & stretches
Explanation and in-depth practice of:
- Back-breakfalls
- Side breakfalls
- Forward rolls
- rolling backrolls
- Flips
Plus breakfall practice from the following techniques:
- shomen ate
- kote-gaeshi
- mae otoshi
The emphasis was on the importance of safety and relaxing when taking ukemi in order to prevent injury.
Tandoku Undo
Tandoku Undo means “Individual practise”. In Tomiki/Shodokan aikido this commonly refers to Unsoku (foot movements) and Tegatana Dosa (Hand blade exercises).
At last night’s training, I was asked for some Youtube videos that would be a good reference. After sifting out some poor videos (with mistakes made such as keeping the heel off the ground), I settled on these two videos as good examples.
Unsoku (Sean Flynn)
Tegatana Dosa (Scott Allbright)