Dynamic Aikido

Just the old guard turned up tonight, four of us that have trained together these last three years. So we had a very dynamic session tonight, with lots of projections and full-on immobilzations. The theme of tonight's session was the double wrist grab (katate tori ryote mochi - two hands on two hands), running through all the basic techniques.

Sensei Chris showed us some interesting shortcuts, to get the technique applied efficiently with yonkyo, and a nice way to get the nikkyo applied, missing out a few steps, or as Chris said "taking the training wheels off".

It was definitely cold coming out into the air from the dojo tonight. Summer is over for another, and the cold weather is blowing in. We went to the pub for our monthly debriefing, definitely an important part of etiquette, at least in the UK tradition.