Monday, 18 November 2019

Our topics today:

• KATATE-DORI IKKYO in OMOTE ("2 sword cuts") and URA
• MOROTE-DORI IRIMI-NAGE ("low-high")
• MOROTE-DORI KOTEGAESHI ("high-low")

Sunday, 17 November 2019

Our topics today:

• KATATE-DORI UCHI-KAITEN-NAGE in OMOTE & URA
• KATATE-DORI USHIRO-KIRI-OTOSHI
• SUWARI-WAZA KOKYU-HO

Thursday, 14 November 2019

Our topics today:

• Main topic "natural movements, believable attacks"
• KATATE-DORI basics
• KATATE-DORI TAI-NO-TENKAN
• KATATE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE, dynamic ("wave movement")
• KATATE-DORI IRIMI-NAGE, direct entry & IRIMI-KAITEN entry
• KATATE-DORI SUMI-OTOSHI, with contact in the crook of the ellbow & at the shoulder
• KATATE-DORI JIU-WAZA

Monday, 11 November 2019

Our topics today:

• MOROTE-DORI basics: relaxing the shoulder, working from the center
• MOROTE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE
• MOROTE-DORI IKKYO in OMOTE & URA
• MOROTE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE-NANAME (SOKUMEN-IRIMI-NAGE)

Sunday, 10 November 2019

Our topics today:

AIKI-JO

• JO UKEMI
• CHUDAN-TSUKI basics
• JO-DORI CHUDAN-TSUKI KOKYU-NAGE in OMOTE & URA

AIKIDO

• CHUDAN-TSUKI IKKYO in OMOTE & URA
• CHUDAN-TSUKI KOTEGAESHI
• SUWARI-WAZA KOKYU-HO

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Our topics today:

• USHIRO-RYOTE-DORI basics
• USHIRO-RYOTE-DORI IKKYO
• USHIRO-RYOTE-DORI NIKYO in OMOTE & URA
• AI-HANMI KATATE-DORI IKKYO in OMOTE & URA
• AI-HANMI KATATE-DORI UCHI-KAITEN-SANKYO

Monday, 4 November 2019

Our topics at the silent keiko today:

• SUWARI-WAZA SHOMEN-UCHI IRIMI-NAGE
• SUWARI-WAZA KATATE-DORI IRIMI-NAGE
• SUWARI-WAZA KATATE-DORI SHIHO-NAGE URA (special solution)
• HANMI-HANDACHI-WAZA KATATE-DORI SHIHO-NAGE in URA & OMOTE
• YOKOMEN-UCHI basics, enter using the center
• YOKOMEN-UCHI SHIHO-NAGE in OMOTE & URA
• Focus on entry, moving forwards, creating and maintaining pressure
• SUWARI-WAZA KOKYU-HO, forward entry

Thursday, 31 October 2019

Our topics at the silent keiko today:

• YOKOMEN-UCHI basics
• IRIMI-TENKAN entry (for all following techniques)
• YOKOMEN-UCHI IKKYO in OMOTE
• YOKOMEN-UCHI SHIHO-NAGE in OMOTE
• YOKOMEN-UCHI UDEKIME-NAGE in OMOTE

Monday, 28 October 2019

Our topics today:

• 5 elements in Aikido:
  • Heaviness (center over center)
  • Entry (OMOTE principle)
  • Extension (URA principle)
  • Sticky connection (KIMUSUBI)
  • "Shadow hand" (2nd hand is always involved)
• Exercise: working with MEN-UCHI contact
• KATATE-DORI SOTO-KAITEN-NAGE (KOKYU-NAGE variant)
• YOKOMEN-UCHI IKKYO, variants with direct entry in OMOTE and URA

Sunday, 27 October 2019

Our topics at the grading keiko today:

Aikido with Brigitta and Jörn

• HANMI-HANDACHI-WAZA USHIRO-RYOKATA-DORI KOKYU-NAGE
• TACHI-WAZA RYOTE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE Variation
• TACHI-WAZA KATATE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE Variation (SOTO-KAITEN)
• HANMI-HANDACHI-WAZA KATATE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE
• HANMI-HANDACHI-WAZA KATATE-DORI SHIHO-NAGE URA

Gradings

• 6th KYU
• 5th KYU

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Our topics today:

• Grading curriculum 5th kyu

Monday, 21 October 2019

Our topics today:

• Exercise for connection with relaxed wrists
• KATATE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE in URA and OMOTE (grading form, OMOTE as IKKYO-NAGE)
• Variants of extending UKE's attack (grip):
  • straight (KOKYU-NAGE, executed similarly to SUMI-OTOSHI)
  • downwards (KOKYU-NAGE, executed similarly to SOTO-KAITEN-NAGE)
  • upwards (USHIRO-KIRI-OTOSHI)
• KATATE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE-NANAME in URA and OMOTE (alternative forms)
• RYOTE-DORI TENCHI-NAGE