I am failing my new year’s resolution of teaching to the test. Concepts and connections are taking precedent over technique in my classes. This morning the only technique I taught was ai-hanmi-katate dori kokyuho (and its variant irimi nage). I have covered kokyuho previously but this morning I used it as an exemplar of precision positioning. ToContinue reading “SPOTTING”
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CONTACT EXERCISES – Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori
With an influx of new students I have presented contact exercises. In each of the last two classes there was only one technique taught in each. Technique is a secondary expression that derives from feeling connection. Aikido is frustrating to learn because it is an energetic art – one must not only feel the internal movements but alsoContinue reading “CONTACT EXERCISES – Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori”
Protective Arts 