basics

Made it to the beginning aikido class last Friday, and forced my son C
to sit and watch, poor boy. He seemed to enjoy watching Dad get thrown
around.

These days beginner's classes are my favorites. I really need to go
back to school on the very basic elements. In fact, if my schedule were
more flexible I probably would go to mainly beginner's classes for
several months.

Learned more about kokyudosa, in particular how to extend into the
attack, forcing uke to commit, and then using the lower back to draw
energy upwards.