I am back in South Florida after graduating from FSU. I searched for a close school with a similar style to the ASU Aikido dojo up in Tallahassee. There's a dojo in Boca Raton, which my former Dojo recommended me to, with head Sensei Randall who is very experienced in Aikido and assistant Sensei Murat who is equally skilled. They have a very different schedule than the North Florida Aikikai dojo. Monday's they do weapons classes, Tuesdays Aikido technique and randori practice. Thursday and Saturdays are more advanced skills classes.
Over the Month and a half I've been here we worked on the first five Bokken Kata's and their similarities between open-handed techniques. Techniques such as Shihonage draw from this sword form most obviously. When an attack is presented and Shihonage is applicable the drawing motion of Uke's attack into Nages hands as they tenkan around resembles a sword strike ending with the blade at Nages power center (near their center). From there the elbow props up their captured arm as they either step through or around Uke (omote or ura) and finish the technique.
I have enjoyed the month and a half spent here and learned many new things that cannot be expressed in writing. Having trained with new people has been a fun experience and shown me that there are many things I have to learn in my aikido. I realize that I still have much to learn with staying relaxed while executing self defense techniques and not allowing my center to be taken from the attacker.
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