Keiko program 2018-08-04

• Head/shoulders rotations
  • standing up, rotate slowly and completely the head within a plane at 45 degree angle with the plane of your body.
  • then, other 45 degree
  • again, starting with looking over your shoulder at 45 degree angle (opposite rotation)
  • again, involving the hands / arms: windmill rotations
  • Aosola Taiso
• Gauguin - Matrix exercise
  • same idea as before, but together with partner
  • first, both cut diagonally, using same side, through partner body - it won't work if your energies don't meet at the center of the earth, resp. (opposite rotation) top of the sky
  • second, using Gauguin's form (Where do we come from/What are we/Where are we going): one partner brings energy from far behind to far ahead - through other partner's shoulder. Other partner, after a while, accompanies the first partner's movement with his own (opposite) movement. Contact, but no pressure.
• Gedan Barai, soft, open-handed, Kihon - forward and backward
• same energy and steps but with TSGS A-E (A through oneself) both hands stepping forward, TSGS-I both hands stepping backwards (open-hands)
• Taimyo Kata part I - complete
• Tenshingoso Kumite - standing up, one hand / both hands / variations
• catch ball, sitting on the floor
  • roll a small ball on the floor, various ways (TSGS-I, TSGS-O(bowling), TSGS-E(elbow forward))
    Stretch as you go and reach forward, playfully.
  • Then send the ball as you come back rolling - slightly over partner's head
• catch ball, standing up - like tennis serve / volley-ball smash: let the arm completely unfold to vertical, before releasing the ball (fingers finish pointing forward). Drive the movement from the center / Tanden. The ball should make a nice parabola, ending up precisely at the middle of each other's forehead (looking up).