Norm Sempai, Andy, Kanae, John and Jeff came out to a great Sunday class. I am excited to be in this club because we can work out on Sundays to perfect and get guidance about techniques that we learn about during the week. It is like Mondays and Fridays are class lectures with in-class exercises, and Sundays are the labs to spend more time on specific techniques.

Four of us spent 2 hours just on shomenuchi ikkyo omote tonight! We worked through the key points that Ben Sensei wants his students to know, as well as what happens when we don’t do what Sensei instructs (i.e. get off the line of momentum). Usually if we make mistakes on Mondays and Fridays we are corrected right away, but there is not enough time to internalize all the minute corrections. On Sundays we can try stepping different amounts, rotating less or more, lowering our centers less or more, and on and on. They are the perfect vehicle to explore Aikido as researchers.

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