Mokuren Dojo: Stepping aside into udegaeshi

Aiki with Kel

ROM, ukemi
tegetana with emphasis on how shifting how you think about the rhythm of the exercise changes what you get from the exercise.
hanasu with emphasis on the flow: R1↔R2↔R6. R1 (or R3) is sort of a prelude to all of the releases, with R6 (or R8) being a little curlycue on the end that is sometimes required to make the release work (almost an afterthought). So R1↔R2↔R6 and R3↔R4↔R8 make great flow exercises that seem to work on a lot of of the types of motions that occur in aikido. We also got to play with ushiroate and aikinage in the context of R1↔R2↔R6.
shomenate and aigamaeate with emphasis on moving offline using the cowcatcher.
oshitaoshi and udegaeshi with emphasis on stepping aside when you meet resistance. There is a lot going on in udegaeshi...

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