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.

[bushido_man96]

6/16/2025

Aikido:  8:45 - 9:45 am.  Morning family class.  Went through aikitaisos, but didn't do any rolling.

Katatetori shionage static ura:  I kept leaning back when turning and raising the arm; I need to focus on sitting more.

Katatetori shionage static omote:  Need to step rear leg across first, turn hips when stepping other foot in front to affect release.  

Katatetori shionage dynamic, omote and ura:  Same points on the leaning back.  I also worked on trying to do the proper side bread fall out if it as uke.

Katatori nikkyo static w/o pin:  Proper footwork and drag step for good angle, and turn the hips through.

Stretch.

[bushido_man96]

6/19/2025

Aikido:  8:45 - 9:45 am.  Morning family class.  Aikitaisos, front break falls, front rolls, back rolls.  These didn't affect me negatively all that much, which is a good sign.

Shomenuchi iriminage:  We started off working the entry to transition spot.  I managed to get popped in the nose by a new, really raw student while being uke.  When working on the right side, I felt like I was behind on everything.  Like I wasn't catching up.  Didn't feel that on the other side.  After working that a while, we transitioned the technique into a rear naked choke.  It's a really good entry for that.

After that, I got to demo again.  I was feeling the same issue when doing iriminage.  For nikkyo, I needed to finish differently, but I got it figured out.  I also managed to keep the ura in the ura nikkyo.  Shionage felt rough; I was caught doing static quite a bit, but got to work it out later.  I'll have one more review day and then will likely test.