Training is going well. With Nemoto Sensei we have been through the 5 kumitachi and have moved onto the Ken tai Jo, and have covered some interesting variations for ikkyo if the uke is being diificult and offering resistence, some of which seemed more like Aikijutsu rather than Aikido. This morning we covered Nikkyo variations is uke is resisting in various ways.
Other than training we have been clearing the land next to Aiki house ready for Keiko when the next wave of people arrive in about a weeks time. The 4 Germans and one Danish people are leaving and 5 Russians and two Italians are arriving. So in total that will mean there are 13 people here. A couple of people will stay next door in Nemoto Sensei's brothers house. But it will still be pretty busy for meal times.
It has been cold here in the mornings, training on quite hard mats in the cold isn' so easy as I feel that my body isn't warmed up enough. Who would have thought that a nice hot 40C day would seem apealing. I had been feeling quite under the weather for a few days, guessing that my immune system was quite low due to a lack of sleep and extra stress, but I seem to have got through it and now feeling back to normal.
Aikido Iwama Uchideshi
This Blog originally tracked a three month period during which time I undertook training in Iwama under the supervision of Nemoto Sensei. We also trained at the Shibu Dojo, O'Sensei's Dojo in Iwama located in the Ibaraki Prefecture of Japan.
I have returned this time for a shorter three week stint in January 2011.
