The Martial Artists' Training Log

[DarthPenguin]

Excellent - glad to hear you are able to get back into it

[bushido_man96]

6/12/2025

Aikido:  8:45 - 9:45 am.  I did some front and back rolls today, and it didn't affect me too negatively.  Hopefully, it's something I can do more of going forward.

Shomenuchi iriminage:  Good motivation on the striking arm.  I had too much weight on the front foot upon entry, and it caused me to have to take an extra step to perform the tenkan turn.  I tried to focus on keeping the weight back more.  On the motivation, I need to focus more on a horizontal motivation as opposed to pulling down on the arm so much.

Shomenuchi kokyunage:  This one went ok.  It's definitely more direct.  I could probably keep my center dropped a bit better.

I worked on a proper side fall for both of these techniques when I was uke.  After working these two techniques for a while, we took attacks and had to pick one of them to do on the fly without letting uke know what was coming.