Bob Poresky Sensei's Class 5/22/2010

Bob Poresky Sensei's class will be May 22th, 2010.

Instructor: Bob Poresky Sensei
Where: Capital Aikikai of Syracuse (Direction)
When: May 22th, 2010. Class will start 11am to 1pm
           We will meet up at parking to leave at 9:15am.

See you then!

5th kyu test Sunday

A big hug for everyone at Rochester Phoenix Aikido. Thanks for your help and support.
xoxoPaula

Gallery updated

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Bob Poresky Sensei's Class 4/18

 Bob Poresky Sensei will be at Rochester this coming Sunday, April 18th, 2010.
Class will start 11am.

When : 11am to 1pm, April 18th, 2010
Where : Rochester Phoenix Aikido Club. Check Direction Here

Some points on Plank Sensei's Saturday class.

Saturday's portion of the seminar began with Plank Sensei's description of the rowing exercise as a valuable "Hojo Undo", or, daily exercise.

He discussed how at first the movements were to be attended to closely, until, as sufficient layers of practice have built into the unconscious, one achieves proper form with less attention. A daily buildup of this practice, according to Plank Sensei, would allow one to develop good basic habits, and provide for the beginnings of both structure and connection in themselves.

Structure was the primary theme of the day, and connection was directly discussed in the latter part of the class. Anyone who attended Sunday's class is invited to convey their experiences and impressions.

I will try to summarize a portion of Plank Sensei's discussion on structure, as seen in both the rowing exercise, and in basic sword cuts.

The way I heard him, and subsequently considered it, is in terms of a right-triangle. Imagine your weight distribution in hanmi from a side view. If your weight is forward, as though you had just completed a strike, it may look something like this:If you had need to repeat the strike, you would shift your weight, and exhibit the 'right triangle' on the left, and onward.

Plank Sensei also described defensive strikes, as though you were late to strike, or behind the incoming attack. Weight would be forward (or to the right), except the strike would be raised and at the ready. In the defensive cut, the weight shifts back (or to the left), and the 'right triangles' are reversed, as below:
The difficulty here, is that this particular practitioner is practicing the first type of offensive strike, so the 'triangles' don't quite match up to the posture we would expect. Just imagine the image on the right shifting his weight back (to the left) in order to avoid and block an attack.

In each of the above images, the straight vertical lines correspond to the higher weight concentration (ie, front foot or back foot)

Next time, pictures of the authors!

That is it for now. I welcome anyone who attended Sunday's portion of the seminar to comment here and tell us how it went.

Seminar by Bill Plank Sensei this coming weekend

We have seminar by Bill Plank Sensei this coming weekend.

When: April 10th, 11th.
Where: Capital Aikikai of Syracuse

If you plan to attend, check location and start time.

Detail is here

Yokomen entering

  Yesterday was Tom's class. We exercised entering to Yokomen attacking. Eight people attended class. One of off centering technique against Yokomen attaching was very unique. I personally like it. After the class, some of students trained Randori with Tanto. It was also fun.
  Next weekend, we will have Bill Plank sensei's seminar at Capital Aikikai of Syracuse. Check time and map to Syracuse at Dojo.
Note: We have Youth class on Sunday as usual.

Seminar information: Bill Plank Sensei

SEMINAR

April 10th and 11th, 2010
CAPITAL AIKIKAI, SYRACUSE, NY
Featuring
Bill Plank, 5th Dan, Shidoin

  Bill Plank Sensei is the chief instructor of both Capital Aikikai, in Washington, DC and Jackson Hole Aikikai, in Wyoming. He holds the rank of fifth degree black belt, and is a Shidoin instructor, registered with the Aikikai Hombu dojo, in Japan. He sits on the Board of Governors of the Capital Aikikai Federation and is one of the senior students of Clyde Takeguchi Shihan. Plank Sensei has been a student of Clyde Takeguchi Shihan of Capital Aikikai since starting Aikido in 1981.

Registration:

• Saturday 4/10/10 11 a.m. 
• Sunday 4/11/10 9 a.m. 

Cost:

• $30 Saturday only
• $20 Sunday only
• $40 Both Days

Saturday Class Sunday Class

• 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
• 2:15p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Capital Aikikai, Syracuse NY

5869 Fisher Road, Building 2, Suite, B, East Syracuse, New York 13057

Chief Instructor: Bob Poresky (315) 559-5061

More information is here

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Dojo is closed on Easter sunday

No class on Easter Sunday.

Cafépress shop now open

Cafépress shop now open!  
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Upcoming Events

April 10(Sat), 11(Sun):         

Seminar of Bill Plank sensei at Capital Aikikai of Syracuse.

Check in at the dojo for car pooling and travel times.

Apr 17(Sat), 18(Sun):           

Rev Zenko Okimura sensei 7th dan, Cornell Aikido Spring SEMINAR at Cornell University.
Rev Zenko Okimura sensei is chief instructor of Aikido Delaware Aikikai

April 25(Sun): (TBA)   

Apr 18(Sun):   Date changed

Bob Poresky sensei's class at Rochester Phoenix Aikido Club

start 11 am

Jul 17(Sat), 18(Sun):      

First annual Capital Aikikai Federation Summer Camp.

Venue is Loudoun County, Virginia. Check http://www.potomacaikikai.org/cafseminar2010.htm for details.

Circular movement again

  In adult class, we improved circular movement with Kote-gaeshi and Irimi-nage techniques on Sunday. About 15 people attended, one newcomer joined training. Since we trained basic principles these days, hope everyone get their techniques and mind be refined. We will move on next step in next class.

  In youth class, we trained Ukemi drill. Step-by-step Ukemi exercise has been done in almost half of the class. Hope all kids enjoyed.

Aikido Demonstration at Martial Arts Spring Festival in Rochester

  We had Aikido Demonstration at 25th Martial Arts Spring Festival today. Vic and Taka demonstrated as 17th demonstrator of 20 groups. Vic demonstrated Yokomen-uchi and Kosa-dori techniques in Randori style, Taka did Tanto (against knife) and Suwari-waza (sitting) techniques.  Many of audience concentrated on our demonstration, I believe. Thanks to Mike for supporting and taking video. Pictures are uploaded to Gallery. Check it out!

Shoulder to shoulder

 We trained techniques against "Tsuki"(Punch) in Tom's class tonight. To get nice off centered position, we focused on shoulder to shoulder positioning. At the end of class, we enjoyed randori style training as usual.
  Ten people attended today's class. From last week, we have a new member joined our school. Size of our dojo is getting bigger. That's nice.

Circular movement

  We improved circular movement in technique using sword. Centering and circular movements were topic of in Sunday training. Hope everybody got it. See you next time.

Small changes to Tuesday and Friday night schedules

Here is small changes to Tuesday and Friday night schedules

Tuesday:
       6:00pm - 6:30pm  Weapons training
       6:30pm - 7pm       Internal Strength training
       7pm - 8pm           Aikido

Friday:
       5pm - 6pm           Aikido - randori
       6pm - 6:30pm      Internal Strength training

Class schedule is updated

Sunday training, Morote techniques

 We trained Morote grabbing techniques today. Spacing was key point of today's training. How much space you have relative to your partner is something what we need to think. At the end, we practiced 13 JO kata training all together. Jump-in Mae ukemi (forward roll) practice in warm up was also fun.

Monday Training

  Today's training was Tom's class. We did some techniques in Katate/Kosa grabbing based on concepts from Bob sensei's class yesterday. I enjoyed Randori training with 3-5 people. It was fun. In Randori training, Paula did great continuous Ukemis! See you next time.

Bob Poresky Sensei's class was fun

  We had Bob Poresky Sensei's class this morning. 20 people attended and everybody had fun time. Some people drove from Syracuse or Buffalo. Hope to see you all next time again.

See also Gallery!