Shinshin toitsu aikido training notes 　　心身統一合氣道

Keyaki-kai (Zelkova Club)

2009-09-26T09:00:00.001+09:00

A long time since I've been able to come to this free practice. And got some great advice on how to cut with the bokken! Very happy.

Gaienmae, Ohara-sensei

2009-09-18T19:00:00.001+09:00

Ushirotekubidori koteoroshi
Did some practice with partner resisting to check the movements.

Yoga

2009-09-16T19:00:00.002+09:00

From the kids class:
2 kyo

Tenkan lead ukemi from the fingertips
Pin with your lower hand palm to body, upper hand palm up to ceiling (for tighter hold on ukemi)

Ushirodori kokyu nage
Katatedori ryotemochi koteoroshi, hachi no ji

Ochanomizu, Ohara-sensei

2009-09-15T19:00:00.001+09:00

Kengi 1
Basic posture on kamae and cut
Extending ki through the ken - when partner tries to close in and grab you

Ki breathing

Seijo

2009-09-14T10:00:00.000+09:00

Posture

seiza
sitting crosslegged
standing

Yoga

2009-09-13T10:00:00.000+09:00

Katatori sankyo irimi

Yoga

2009-09-09T19:00:00.001+09:00

Katatori sankyo irimi
Ushirotekubidori sankyo

Yoga

2009-09-06T10:00:00.000+09:00

3 Conditions for maai:

Takes one step to reach with attack
Can see partner's entire body from top of head to toes
In a state of mind and body unification, your mind stays calm

Katatori ikkyo irimi, tenkan

Gaienmae, Ohara-sensei

2009-09-04T19:00:00.000+09:00

Techniques in kaisho with themes of:

Extend ki
Calm your mind to one point

Four major principles as four paths to the top of the mountain, if one is blocked you can take another but they all lead to the same place.

Seijo

2009-09-03T18:45:00.000+09:00

Katatedori ryotemochi ikkyo, nikyo, and more

Yoga

2009-09-02T19:00:00.000+09:00

Katatedori ryotemochi ikkyo, nikyo and more

Seijo

2009-08-31T10:00:00.000+09:00

Line of sight: seeing whole of partner
Keeping one point: stable posture

Seijo, Ohara-sensei

2009-08-27T18:45:00.000+09:00

Freestyle - yokomenuchi

Yoga

2009-08-26T19:00:00.000+09:00

Kengi 1: #9 -10 and turn after #12

Yoga

2009-08-23T10:00:00.000+09:00

Jogi 1
With throws at tsuku, zujo, #5 -6

Gaienmae, Ohara-sensei

2009-08-21T19:00:00.004+09:00

Ohara-sensei on "positive thinking": Positive thinking is very popular right now. You can find many books in the book store about it. But you need to understand that positive thinking with your conscious mind only, with the surface of mind only, is not the way to go about it. You need to change your subconscious mind. If you find that you are reacting negatively to an experience, that reaction is coming from your subconscious. You cannot change your response by trying to force your conscious mind to react differently.

Think of how you practice aikido. At first with a new technique you are thinking all the time about how this part of your body should move and then the next, it is all in your head. But as you practice you start to carry out the movements without thinking about it. That means the movement has become a part of you, a part of your subconscious. Positive thinking is the same. If you keep practicing it will become a part of your subconscious.

There was a woman who had a good career, she was very successful at work. She came to her aikido teacher [I did not clearly understand if this was Ohara-sensei or someone else] and said, I have a problem at work - I hate my boss, in fact, I find him physically distateful. What can I do about taking this in a positive way?

As she was feeling this way about him, of course there was no way to avoid communicating that feeling to her boss, setting up a cycle of distaste and hatred between them.

So her teacher said, OK, you find him physically distasteful. But find just one good point about him. Maybe he wears nice neckties. Maybe he treats you terribly, but he is kind to someone else. Simply start by finding one good point, however trivial you may think it may be.

Several weeks went by, and one good point turned into two, and then three, and the woman found that her boss was not that awful after all. And one day he treated her to a rather nice lunch. The point is you may have to be a bit innovative how you do "positive thinking".

Katatekosadadori kokyu nage (kaisho)
Katate ryotedori kokyu nage (kaisho), hachi no ji (kaisho)
Walking forward after being grabbed from behind

Akasaka, Ohara-sensei

2009-08-20T19:00:00.001+09:00

Katatedori shiho nage irimi (kaisho)
Irimi - the principle is to go straight forward. Here when you go straight forward you do not crash into your opponent because your fingers are angled to the side. Even as you go straight forward both you and your opponent will go in the direction of your fingertips.

Ryokatadori zenpo nage (kaisho)
Turning; walking; bowing.

Yoga

2009-08-19T19:00:00.001+09:00

Yokomenuchi hachi no ji
Point for me: as go back with hand up in ikkyo, that hand should be pointing straight to the centerline of your opponent, mine has been angled to the side.

Katatori ikkyo irimi and tenkan

Ochanomizu

2009-08-18T19:00:00.002+09:00

Katatekosadori kokyu nage (kaisho)
With testing posture and ki extension at many points.

Ryotedori shihonage irimi and tenkan

Obon Holidays

2009-08-10T10:00:00.000+09:00

Seishinkan and Yoga dojo are on vacation for the Obon holidays until 18 August.

Yoga

2009-08-09T10:00:00.000+09:00

Munatsuki - koteoroshi
- michibiki kubikiri
- uchiwa kubikiri
- uchiwa menuchi

Gaienmae

2009-08-07T19:00:00.000+09:00

Koteoroshi haimen (kaisho, gyosho)
Held by the wrists from behind.

Yoga

2009-08-05T17:00:00.001+09:00

On Wednesdays I get to help with the children's classes at Yoga. This week with schools on vacation and the hot, sticky weather, there were only three kids at the 5:00 class and two at the 6:00 class. So, I got to practice a lot more than usual when I am translating what Maeda-sensei says, watching and giving advice.

In the 5:00 class we did zagi shomenuchi kokyu nage, zagi yokomenuchi irimi, and zagi koteoroshi zenpo nage. Most of the time I was the odd person out (3 kids + 1 sensei = 2 pairs), so I practiced doing ukemi and nage on my own. In the 6:00 class, the brown belt team of H-kun and K-kun are so advanced we spent the hour on bokkendori, doing shomenuchi kokyu nage from the right and left, shomenuchi koteoroshi and shomenuchi irimi.

By the time the adult class started, I was pretty limp and found it difficult to concentrate. Maeda-sensei gave me permission to take a break during class to drink some water and cool down. We did a lot of different practice, including pulling a standing partner down by one arm, shomenuchi kokyu nage, katatori throws and koteoroshi.

Afterwards there was a small party at a kushiyaki restaurant with lots of cold beer.

Yoga

2009-08-02T10:00:00.002+09:00

Yokomenuchi
Points for me:

Shiho nage look ahead, not down, when going forward
Makikomi guide ukemi's hand in big arc down then up
Koteoroshi enundo farther down, let ukemi come farther up

Ochanomizu, Ohara-sensei

2009-07-28T19:00:00.000+09:00

Kind of backed up at work, so only arrived in time for the second hour.

Noticing the difference in your response when your partner comes up behind you and grabs you suddenly in unexpected ways - when you are distracted and when you are "extending ki".

Emphasizing turning the mind outward, to be able to notice what is happening and have the time to respond, when your partner does different attacks from the front.

Jiyu waza (free techniques): any attack, throw with koteoroshi

Shinshin toitsu aikido training notes 心身統一合氣道

Keyaki-kai (Zelkova Club)

Gaienmae, Ohara-sensei

Yoga

Ochanomizu, Ohara-sensei

Seijo

Yoga

Yoga

Yoga

Gaienmae, Ohara-sensei

Seijo

Yoga

Seijo

Seijo, Ohara-sensei

Yoga

Yoga

Gaienmae, Ohara-sensei

Akasaka, Ohara-sensei

Yoga

Ochanomizu

Obon Holidays

Yoga

Gaienmae

Yoga

Yoga

Ochanomizu, Ohara-sensei

Shinshin toitsu aikido training notes 　　心身統一合氣道