Shima 05/24/2007

I postponed going to Chesapeake until today so I went to the Shima Dojo instead. It was a really small class with only four of us plus Doug. I believe we started with sanshin gokyo no kata then some tehodoki exercises. I don't know if there are offical names for these other than generic descriptions.

1. Uke: Single hand cross grab of the wrist (katate dori).
   Tori: Move into ichimonji to the side the attack is coming from.
   


2. Uke: Single hand cross grab of the wrist (katate dori).
   Tori: Bring your hand straight up underneath uke's chin, optionally striking it, while stepping forward locking out the knee. This will drive the uke straight back. You can also choose not to lock out the knee and instead strike it from the side causing uke to "buckle" in place.
   

After that we did a couple of the Kukishin sword katas followed by trying to apply those principles from the sword kata to a similiar taijutsu scenario. Then we did an exercise where the tori applied two successive strikes against the uke's initial punch (ie. uke nagashi followed by fudo ken) followed by a couple of flowing exercises where you tried to feel, take and direct the balance of the uke through their attacks.

Good times. Gambatte!