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	<title><![CDATA[Today's Class, so much fun!!!]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[Awesome!!!!! that's what I can say!!!!

This was a long weekend, and a long training today.
Let me begin that I trained Aikido for 3 days straight (total 4 times a week) last week, and that was just toot cool, I mean, you can always enter and find your self just learning all the time.
A lot of corrections, allot of new and old techniques, using weapons and putting it all together! just fantastic!!
I won't mention last week, because that was just a ot of training! hehe, but I'll note that we did a lot of Jo practicing.

Today's lesson was all about groups, groups and more groups, by groups I mean, randori alike simulations, both in [I]tai-jutsu[/I] (hands) and [I]bokken [/I](wooden sword).

First we began with a workout, around 10-15minutes to get our muscles stretched and warm, than we began doing some basic movements and a basic technique:[I] Ki No Nagare[/I],
at first I trained with someone, who was a bit toll, so it was not much useful in the beginning to try and blend to his movements, but later on I got to make it pretty cool when I trained with one of the instructors, and the movement was better. 

Once that was done, my Sensei called up 3 people for demonstration, and showed us about flow and movement when multiple attackers attacks (usually with [I]sho-men-uchi[/I], so we could practice the [I]ki no nagare[/I] technique, and of course other techniques we could remember & execute on such small period of time.

I felt so alive when I handled 3 persons, my heart was beating so fast when I finished... so cool. of course when we did the training, it was fast speed, it was decent speed where one would wait a bit for my [I]uke [/I]to fall..etc.
I executed [I]ki no nagare[/I], [I]shio-nage[/I], [I]sankyu grip[/I], [I]irimi-nage[/I] and basically it all looped, since I couldn't think other stuff at that time besides those.

I remember last time (when I first started) I had such, it was with 1 person (instructor) and I could barely do anything, if at all! nice improvement!!!

On we continues, this time with the bokken, [I]sho-men-uchi[/I] with the bokken, and than 3 techniques, since there were 3 attackers!

1 attacks me from the front, and the two of them attacks me from both sides! the first with [I]sho-men-uchi[/I], I trurn, makes an [I]Atemi[/I], grab the [I]tsuka[/I] (sword's handle) in the middle, and bend it and push the handle up 90 degrees, the attacker's hands breaks (body get cut in the processes) and I now have the sword, I block with attacker from the right, (slice his hands when our bokkens meet) and turn 180 degrees and slice the [I]hara[/I] (stomech) of the left attacker's before he can strike me.

We practiced more stuff, some asked questions, and basically it was such cool session today.
After class ended, I decided to attack one of the instructors hehehe (soon to get [I]sho-dan[/I]), I always attack him, since his a buddy of mine now, and I decided with other friend to do 2 on 1 fight (same as we did in class), we kicked some ass, (of course it always comes down that I pin him to the ground with some weird kind of freestyle attacks hehehehe), but that's just fun off-mat time!
next the 2 guys attacked me, I handled slowly with some techniques, and we attacked the 3rd guy too.

when that was off, me and the guy (not the instructor) went to practice on the Jo [I]Kata[/I] that we do all the time! total amount of off-mat practice was an hour.
total Aikido practice today: 2½ hours!!!

Long story short, this day's conclusions are that:

1. I can handle multiple attackers with more skill and better tool set (techniques) that my unconscious draws out.
2. I can still remember the Jo [I]Kata[/I] and keep improving it (over 15moves).
3. Off-mat time is such wonderful free style aikido that will sharpen your movements and skills if you just do it all the time after class.

Hope you enjoyed reading,
Shany.]]></body>
	<date>08-27-2007</date>
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