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Creation Date: 02-27-2005 12:33 AM
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In General Paired 31 count Kata Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #47 New 03-18-2004 08:06 AM
3/17/04
I was working on the 31 count Kata and didn't even know it! We are working on a paired exercise in weapons class. Sensei explained that this was the paired part of the 31 count kata.

I arrived late, and without my gi, asked Sensei if it was Ok to train, he had no problem with it.

I still can't say that I get a whole lot out of the sticks stuff, except that I am not well centered, and quite wobbly with a stick in my hand.
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In General Not Force Technique Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #46 New 03-17-2004 10:16 AM
3/16/04
Evening Class:

Worked on getting off the line with a Tenkon in the beginning of Morte Dori Ikkyo. Hard to get that first step, and the first hand moves all right at the right time. Lots of timing issues on my part. Have to get in deep with the Tenkon. Learning also about how to get your partner to move forward, when you extend your arms in a spiral outward from you. Worked with Doug in Kokyu Dosa, we worked on grabbing hard, resisting hard, and moving from center. It is amazing how well this Aikido stuff works when you get even the smallest parts of it correct, and move from your center, and keep the connection. There is no effort in it if you can get to the place that you do it somewhat correctly.

One of the people that I was working with was way off balance in their technique, really leaning over too far, I could feel the lost of power as Uke, I wanted to mention something, but did not. Did not feel that it was my place. I learned a lot from it though I felt how the flow stopped, I felt where I could have stood up, and reversed the technique. I felt it, then made a conscious effort to look and see what it was. This was new to me, and gave me a little insight into why it was that some of the sempies liked to work with us newbies!

Sensei came by and worked with me with Maximum resistance. It was fun to work with him in this manner. It was so smooth like always. How does he get that smoothness in there? I know years and years of practice. Later he had three ...More Read More
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In General Coffee After Class, YES!!! Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #45 New 03-17-2004 10:12 AM
3/16/04

Morning Class:

This felt like being home after a weekend vacation. I trained with Rick which is always good, met Roy, someone that used to train a lot at the Dojo, but moved away.

We worked on Morote Dori Irimi Nage(?) I need to take better notes between the classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays they tend to run together sometimes. There was a little glimmer of flow, and some concept of maybe being able to see how the parts are all there in all of the aikido moves. I ended up in front of the class showing how it was that I was destined to get punched in the ribs in this move. Learned that I needed to make sure that I was facing my partner, and that I had control of their center before I moved there. This was amazing watching Sensei do it, I still think that I am going to get it right in the ribs this side of a couple of years of practice.

After class we went for a coffee, this was wonderful, and something that I have been wanting to do for the three months since I started at the Dojo. It was great there were 5 of us, and the conversation was excellent. There was a lot that made me think. People who generally come to things easily don't practice well. They tend to look lazy in some ways, and undisciplined, but that there is more going on than that. This was a new lens on the practice issue for me, and I am evaluating it, for how it fits into my life.

The thing about going for coffee may seem strange to some people, but part of my security in relationships ...More Read More
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In General Doshu 2004 Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #44 New 03-17-2004 09:29 AM
3/13/04 -- 3/14/04

Doshu Seminar 6 hours on the mat and two hours watching in two days.

Doshu instructed on Irimi, tenkon, and circular motions. It was great. I did Sanyko for the first time. There were a lot of different people from a lot of different styles there. It was interesting to see the differences that the styles make. I spent the first hour worrying about getting stepped on. After that most of the people decided that we did not need to complete all of the falls, so we didn't with some, and did with others.

It was wonderful to train with a lot of different people. The amazing thing was that the Aikido of the Dojo was there only bigger. I was worried that there would be some really gung ho people, but everyone was very kind and helpful with me. They all seemed to take my newby inabilities in stride, and help me. I did my best to be a good Uke, sometimes I could feel the limitations in this, especially as some of the moves were quite complex.

Kokyu dosa was really neat, I got some great tips from the person that I was working with on it and watching the movements of the Doshu was also educational. I learned that while I am not pushing with my shoulders anymore, I have them bunched up, if I relax, there is a lot more power that is generated when I move from center.

I was introduced to some of the knee techniques, and saw how that related to the standing techniques, and how doing the knee techniques could help a lot with your balance and centeredness. ( ...More Read More
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In General Blessings for the Uke! WOW! Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #43 New 03-12-2004 09:25 AM
3/11/04

I managed to miss morning class, because I have too many clocks in my life. And two of them are an hour fast. Look at one that is an hour fast, and subtract a full hour instead of noting that it is 10 minutes to the hour, and bam you have managed to miss class entirely before you realize the mistake that you have made. I was pretty upset about it, because the morning classes are my favorites. Oh well.

In evening class we again worked on Kate Dori Ikkyo. Worked with Linda, it is amazing that she has a circle in a place that I can't even figure out how it gets there. She said that I was a good Uke. Worked with Don on hand blade grab part of Ikkyo. It was a lot of fun.

Sensei used me in a demonstration to show how to ikkyo people with big hands. The trick is not to use your thumb, but instead to use your base of your thumb, and your fingers as a hook. Kind of like a J. It was awesome! I got moved around in a circle so that everyone could see what was going on, and it was completely natural. My wrist definitely feels stretched a lot!

It was a good class. I had a lot of energy bunched up in my body, lots of stress from some non-aikido life work that I am doing right now. It was so so good to get on the mat and forget the rest of the world.

Rolling practice did not go as well as Tuesday, I was in a lane by myself, and I did better with the right side, than with the left, but not as smooth as Tuesday by a long shot.

About ½ way through class I started tryi ...More Read More
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In General Only Sticks...Can't Imagine it. Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #42 New 03-12-2004 09:19 AM
3/10/04
Sticks, did the 12 part paired Kata. It was neat, a little hard to get used to at first. There is a person that only comes to sticks class. I find this completely alien. I am sure that he would find my not really getting sticks all that much alien as well.

I started to see however how it is that timing and distance, and moving from center can all be improved on from sticks. I am no where near doing any of it, but I can see where it would help it.
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In General Trying to flow from center in life as in Aikido. Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #41 New 03-12-2004 09:16 AM
3/9/04
Worked with Adrian, Doug, and Don. Worked on Rolling at the end of class, and I did well on the right side, not so well on the left side, but getting better I think.
Energy bunching up and moving from Center issues.

Adrian is one of those people that has a lot of flow.

Staying centered and moving from center is key, that is also one of the keys to life, not getting overextended, thinking about the future, or the past, one is like reaching far out in front of you, and the other like standing on one leg looking back.

I have to move from center with flow in my life outside of the Dojo. My issues in the past with getting bunched up energy and stressed out in life, are just like what my body does on the mat sometimes. The biggest things that I need to do are breath, and move from the center of my being.
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In General Out of the world, a space to practice life in Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #40 New 03-12-2004 09:14 AM
3/9/04
Morning class.

Aikido as the place that is out of the world to look at the world. How when I go looking for ideas to solving the problems that I am having I. I find them in Aikido. The work out was great, and I did Jawa Randori (?) with Rick and Julia after class. I still feel like my Kate Dori Ikkyo is not all that good, and we have been working on it for over two weeks. What I mean by that is not that I expected to be on ball bearings like Sensei, or have flow like some of the Yodunsha, but that seem to have a better grasp of some of the other techniques than I do of this one. Something in the basics of it seems to elude me.

The class was wonderful in that I understood some of the connections between what I am doing physically in Aikido, and what is going on emotionally in my life.

In Circle at the end of class I spoke of the ways that Aikido is helping me in my professional life in working with clients, and how I would never have gotten as far in this working with a few of the clients that I have been working with.

After Class the friend that I had tried to help on Tuesday came to me, and we had a conversation that mirrored what I had discovered for myself. So somehow in the big wheel I was able to offer something little to one of my traning partners. This feels so good, as the person is one of the Sempies that adopted me when I started this 6 weeks ago. He has done so much to help me the idea of giving something back no matter how little is wonderfu ...More Read More
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In General 20 minutes with Sensei! Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #39 New 03-06-2004 08:57 PM
3/5/04

So it was only Sensei, Victor, Julia, Peter, Linda and I tonight. It was great, I worked for 20 minutes with Julia then 20 minutes with Victor, then 20 minutes with Sensei!!! The last 20 minutes we did Morote Dori Koku Ho a lot, and at the end of each one Sensei would pull me over. It was all that I did not have a good base. It was great working on it. Also I noticed that when he threw me, there was no way that I could hold on to his arm, but when I threw him it was easy for him to hold onto mine. I got my base a little better. It was great.

Victor and I worked on something that was a lot like mune tsuki kote gaeshi. Victor continues to amaze me with his muscle development, and his flow.

Sensei is amazing with flow, control, and movement of energy. The smoothness is so very strange to me.

Julia is wonderful to work with too. I learn tons from working with her, feeling where it is that I am forcing things and where things are actually smooth. Her smile and her attitude make it wonderful.

At the end of class when we thank our training partners, more and more it is from the heart that I thank them for being there, for training with me, and having patience with me, especially the sempies, who have to be uke for me doing the same thing with the same mistakes over and over and over again.

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In General One Exhale Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #38 New 03-06-2004 08:56 PM
3/04/04

This evening we worked on doing things with flow. One of the hardest parts so far in my practice. Sensei helped with this by altering all of our timing. He instructed us to do the entire technique Kate Dori Ikkyo, in one out breath. It was amazing. I slowed down so much and realized that I was rushing everything. Once I realized how long I really had to do the technique in a single exhale, and how good it felt in that breath. I noticed after the third or fourth time as Nage, that I had more flow. It was wonderful…

We did rolling practice, I think it was the worst that I have done at it so far. It is probably the thing that I most need practice on, and the thing that I dread the most. I am afraid I am going to fall on my face or something. I know that when I don't think about it I do the best…I also do better when I am higher for my starts. Anyway Don and I were in the same lane, he seems to levitate for a while then gently roll on the mat. Strange, seems so very far away from my being afraid of falling on my face.
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