CJC.org » Martial Arts http://www.cjc.org/blog Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:54:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Aikido Bokken Kata 1-5 http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/10/16/aikido-bokken-kata-1-5/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/10/16/aikido-bokken-kata-1-5/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:02:25 +0000 Cheng http://www.cjc.org/blog/?p=129026 For my own reference. It’s hard to do a clean step-by-step table, mainly because some actions are combined. Some vocabulary can be found here. Kata 1 (attacker wins) # Attacker Defender 1 From chudan, ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/10/16/aikido-bokken-kata-1-5/feed/ 3 Itai and Gearoid, Ikkyu and Gokyu http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/09/30/itai-and-gearoid-ikkyu-and-gokyu/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/09/30/itai-and-gearoid-ikkyu-and-gokyu/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:07:48 +0000 Cheng http://www.cjc.org/blog/?p=129021 I was in New York earlier this week to help uke for promotion tests at my old dojo, with Itai testing for ikkyu and Gearoid (who I hadn’t met before) ...

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