Went over the Tenkan and Irimi form for the new students and as a review for everyone. Went over the first half of the Ukemi kata up to the kneeling position.
Worked on being grabbed one hand or two and bringing your hands in to your center and turning them palm up to break Uke's grip and apply Kotagaeish from a one handed grab where the grabbed hand feeds their hand to your open hand. When both arms are grabbed you bring them both together and up with palms facing up breaking the grip and the lower hand grabs their hand on your upper hand and Kotageish can be applied. Instead of trying to fight against them to bring your hands together you should feel where their energy is going and work with that. If they are pushing into you then draw you hands backwards a bit, even stepping back slightly to draw them in and give yourself some slack to move with. If they are grabbing and pulling towards themselves you can use this energy and movement to draw their hands towards them which will give you some slack and room to move their hands for Kotagaeish.
Next we worked on Ski(Menutsuki) Kotagaeish. I tried to focus on sliding past them and allowing the punch to pass whilst sliding the hand down the arm to their fist and giving a bit of a push with their energy to throw them off balance and allow for spinning them around into Kotagaeish without setting yourself up for a mean roundhouse as they whip around.
Randori as well was done with our number circle setup and only using Ski (straight punch) or Shomen strikes. I was fine with keeping my breathing even here but did not apply too many techniques to avoid. Mostly just used Tenkans and Irimi's to pass through their attacks. This randori exercise is exciting because everyone is standing around you somewhat harmlessly and then if their number is called you have to remember where the attack is coming from and evade it.
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