Friday, February 7, 2014

Denver RMR 2013

Like last couple of years, this year's RMR is again in Denver and again in Superbowl weekend. It is a quite eventful trip, first and foremost we had a wonderful Aikido seminar from Endo sensei, second, the new Dojo is opened officially, practicing on brand new mats is a treat. On our way back to San Jose, we catch some part of Superbowl in flight, southwest offers free wifi TV in flight, turned out to be a disappointing game.

Since we had smaller audience this time, Endo sensei's lecture focused on more advanced techniques. We did variation of 17 on Friday night, then on Saturday, mostly Daisan stuff.


I also had the pleasure to have Garth show me the suwari waza, here are some of the notes I took, along with the notes that I took when Endo sensei demonstrate:


Suwari waza:

Oshitaoshi: one hand hsould be able to do it, don't crank on wrist

Gyakugamae ate: act early

Kotegaeshi: block first, 90 degree turn, don't need more than that. One motion not like Tick Tack. Once kotegaeshi, then turn around the body, rollover the uke. If rollover is slow, cut inside elbow around, if rollover speed is fast, grabing elbow is enough.

Ryote dori Sukuinage: use hip to stand up, which will stand uke up, don't lift with shoulder, hip up first, then maki sukito to twist uke's wrist, just like Jodan kazushi, tuck arm. After Uke forward weighted on his toes, drop right shoulder, at the same time turn to left, extend the arm, in one motion.

Tenkai kotehineri osae:  Lean forward when uke attack, don't hunch back, pull uke elbow to break grip, turn hip to the left, start from my left chest, to far right, extending uke the same time, then big drop, one knee up to allow bigger drop.

Tenkai kotegaeshi osae:  draw back the hand first, make uke come to my side. Use hands like lever, grab hinari on fingers if shotei is too big to grab, wrist is not the right spot, should grab shotei, the meaty part,. After uke is thrown, tuck uke's finger under his shoulder, next to his head, ping my knee next to his shoulder.

Gedanate: make uke work harder by getting heavy, try not to be moved. Hook figners on the gi as much as I can, uke should do back fall, not fall on the side, hand blade cut around and back

Hijikime nage:  Gedan on uke first, control the elbow like stick, then Jodan, after turn around, knee get ups the same time doing maeotashi. Normal way is Jodan first then Gedan, for my size, skipping the initial Jodan might be beneficial.

On Sunday, Endo sensei demontrated the DaiYong kata, 11 of them. Morgan sensei remember all of them and reviewed them with us on Tuesday night class. Let me try to put down what I recall.

  1. Gyakugamaeate: uke cross grab right hand, another hand grab the back of gi. Slide to the left, get kazhushi, then idoyiyoku backward with a big circle, and do Gyakugamaeate.
  2. Maeotoshi:  uke cross cross grab left hand, another hand grab the back of gi, Slide to the right, get kazhushi, then idoyiyoku backward with a big circle, go under uke's arm, so that you are almost completely behind uke,  rotate and cut over his shoulder, uke take a roll forward
  3. Oshitaoshi: uke cross grab right hand, another hand try to grab the back of gi. before uke can grab the gi, tori turn uke's hand into hineri and throw with oshitaoshi.

  4. kotegaeshi: tori turn back to uke when uke try to grab his right hand, uke still was able to grab the back of tori's right hand, but had a kazhushi, tori's left hand should be on the uke's right wrist and one idoyiyoku step to break of grip, and turn around do kotegaeshi.
  5. Hijitaoshi: 
  6. Tenhai kotegaeshi: uke cross cross grab left hand, another hand grab other wrist, big idoyiyoku step to the left, break uke's balance, turn both wrists over, reverse grab uke's two hand, one in hineri, one in gaeshi, then throw uke's back.

  7. Hijitaoshi: uke cross grab right hand, another hand grab the gi, try to choke tori, before uke can grab the gi, tori spin and drop to knee, uke fall next to tori and take a roll.
  8. Like Daisan suwariwaza, maki zuki on the both hands, do jodan kuzhushi on uke's both hands, drop, and body turn to left, left hand up and extend, other hand drop, stresh uke, double hand throw uke over the head to roll
  9. Tenhai kotegaeshi, uke cross grab left hand, another hand grab the gi, try to choke tori, tori turn to left, break the grip, do yate Tenhai kotegaeshii, the reverse gaeshi grip.