Katy Aikido

Last night a few of us were at the Quillian Center for class with Calderon Sensei.  It was a really good class that put a lot of focus on seiza and shikko.  A very interesting version of Shihonage was taught where instead of bringing your knee up immediately, you first raise your torso and hands for kokyo, then pivot and raise your knee.  At this point, you roll backwards on your other foot and then push off backwards to finish doing Ura.  Sensei said this is the correct way to do Shihonage Ura and when executed this way, it is veeery powerful.  I don't have a video for this right now but once available I'll post it.  Might be time to focus on seiza and shikko!

sitting in seiza
chaos and order cross paths
irimi nage

This is to announce that there will be a section of the website dedicated for students. The first feature will be blogs that students can post to. Registration will be required but will not be as painful as doing 500 shomen strikes (warning, that might be an exercise for a future class!). An announcement will be made once the blog section becomes available. There will be guidelines posted as well that should be used as a reference regarding etiquette for contributing to this website. Stay tuned and I'll see you on the mat!