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Neil Saunders Session

By Phil 6th September 2010 6th September 2010 0

This Saturday Neil Saunders Sensei took the class for the afternoon at Genryukan dojo.

Neil and Jon Eoin & Emma Neil, Jon & Rob

Training covered;
Kamae
Nikkajo
Sankajo
Shomen uchi ikkajo osae ichi
kotegaeshi
shihonage
iriminage

We had a good turnout, and a thoroughly enjoyable session was had by all. I think Jon especially enjoyed himself 😉

Photos from the session can be seen in the gallery.

Our thanks go to Neil Saunders, Dave Clarke, Mark Atkinson, Rob Cole and Jimmy Tan for coming down for the day. We’ll see you all soon at the Mustard Sensei seminar.

Lessons

19th July – Randori/Jiyu waza/Free play

By Phil 21st July 2010 21st July 2010 0

Warmup
Ukemi
Tandoku Undo; Unsoku, Tegatana Dosa
Randori No Kata (In preparation for next week’s grading)

Then we concentrated on providing some useful Randori/Jiyu waza/Free play techniques.

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28th June session – anniversary session

By Christophe 29th June 2010 29th June 2010 0

Quick warmup followed by
Ukemi practice
Tandoku Undo; Unsoku & Tegatana Dosa

Gohon-no-kuzushi for white and yellow belts

Randori-no-kata & kaeshi-kata for green belts

It was also our first anniversary session, so cake was on the menu.
Again, a big thank you to all the people (students and instructors) who have been supporting us so far.

genryukan_cake — Happy Birthday Genryukan!

intructors_anniversary — Genryukan Instructors

Lessons

21st June session

By Christophe 22nd June 2010 22nd June 2010 0

Recap of what we covered yesterday:

Warmup followed by
Ukemi practice
Tandoku Undo; Unsoku & Tegatana Dosa
Tai no henko
Gyaku hanmi katate dori shiho nage
Yokomen uchi shiho nage (& kuzushi)
Chudan tsuki kotegaeshi

Randori no kata practice:
Techniques 1 to 10, practiced on both sides for coloured belts.

Focus on demonstrating avoidance and balance break, and using positive techniques.

Ninindori practice.

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14th June Session – Kotegaeshi

By Phil 16th June 2010 16th June 2010 0

Recap of what we covered this Monday;

Mainly concentrating on pivoting and whole body/hip movement to provide unresistable power to kotegaeshi.

Warmup
Tandoku Undo: Unsoku & Tegatana Dosa
Ukemi
Shikko
Tai no henko
Chudan tsuki kotegaeshi
Ryote mochi Tenchi nage
Katate dori nikkyo

Thanks to Tim Moorhead from Canterbury Aikikai for coming along to train with us.