*warning--* boring issue.--shudokan aikido.

Nothing.Nothing is better on a sunday morning, other than getting up early for an aikido class.i went back to seremban for the weekend and decided that i should go and join the seremban classes during sundays since i;ve got nothing else better to do other than just sleeping until noon on sundays.

so went over to join the class, just walked in. it was nice and the people there were friendly too, i met Gerard sensei, cousin of Jo sensei.and he personally gave me some instructions on how to perform my nikajo lock and hijiate throw techniques, well, basically, from wat i've digested, nikajo is not about sqeezing the palm of your opponent~ cos most people tend to focus too much on there~ Gerard sensei's tip: if your uke's palm is turning red because you're squeezing it too hard, that' means youre not doing it right. focus on the body entering. well, Hijiate on the other hand~ is the elbow locked projecction, he stressed on the unified body movement of the shite,dont move with your hands first or lowerbody first.MOVE TOGETHER. because if not, uke will be able to sense your movement and react to yyours-- if you only project with your shoulders. again, Gerard sensei's tip: forget about the hands, just focus on the body entering, and the projecting hand should not sink and point to the floor, just point to the front while you are projecting OUTWARDS, not DOWNWARDS.
"aikido is not about swinging hands"

okay. enough for all the technical stuff. i was so glad to find, that there was only one thought on everybody's mind over at that dojo during the class was on, which was : to train. even when some of the partners were talking and discussing about how to do this and that technique~ sensei came over and said: "too much talking~ go on with the training, ,we're here to train, not talk. " that's wat i'm looking for. set the differences aside, even aikikai members and jiujitsu people came to train with us~

so now i've decided~ i shall train in seremban every sunday that i go back. besides, training with different senseis will allow me to learn and unnderstand the art in more aspects.
wats more, i even found out from Gerard sensei that Jo sensei will be coming over next weekend. and he will be holding a seminar on september~ cant wait to see him!!