Ponderings

I've spent most of the morning thinking about some aikido stuff. It has mainly centered around initial off-balances, ushiro ate, and waki gatame. I think it would be fun to just have a class about the little brush off bump from inside the arm, the one that happens on the outside that "drops uke into the hole" as the intro to quite a bit of junana, the "cow catcher" as a brush off and using ushiro ate and waki gatame as the two ways to finish all these off balances. Then some multiple uke randori to use what we've learned.

So that's what I plan on doing next saturday. IF i can trick/beg people into showing.

As concerns the last post I decided that not advancing doesn't mean i can't progress. I'll just work with what i have. If Karl can become a super judo player with just a couple of sweeps i can be a decent aikidoka with just a hand full of nijusan/ junana.