Crossing animals (1)
This warming up uses characteristics of animals which are good to exercise with, specially if you use the long side of the tatami.
DJ on the floor
Learning: Create abbs by turn and twist. Also use your hands to keep distance to your partner. Not just great idea to clean the tatami, but also get some great abbs. One partner stands and the other lays down on the floor with the belly on the tatami. The one standing should try to touch the […]
Smelly feet
Learning: Train your side abb’s too. This exercise one partner lays down on it’s back while the other stands over it’s head (their feet next to their ears). The person laying down grabs the ankles of the standing partner. Than they raise their feet up in the air in front of the standing partners nose. […]
Clapping Hands
Learning: Losing your balance makes you fall in the right way. Sit in crouched position with your partner, hands 5cm away from each other. Try to clap each other out of balance. Whoever falls, has to do a backfall. Depending on your space this can be a ukemi with or without ‘full ushiro ukemi’. Ofcourse […]
Yoshimitsu Yamada shihan (4:30min)
This is a warm up by Yoshimitsu Yamada Shihan.
Roberto Bollero-Anticoli (3min)
This warm up is by Roberto Bollero-Anticoli sensei.
Chess and checkers
Learning: Get strategic, but also to enjoy chess and checkers in real life. Need: Colored tatami (1m2) This can be done only if you have colored tatami. Or have 1x1m2 tatami. (If you want you can ‘color’ the tatami by sticking a piece of sports tape on the tatami.) Rules are the same as in chess […]
Go Ai-ki-do
https://vimeo.com/351267335 Learning: Ai-ki-do is fun! Attributes: obi, or slippers as markers This is a variation for those who have a tatami without ‘tatami lines’ / rows. All you need is an obi or two markers (like flipflops). You make 3 areas in the dojo. First is called ‘Ai’, second ‘Ki’ and third ‘Do’. When you […]
Sumo
Learning: Basic moves like tenkan are very powerful even in Sumo! Attributes: Obi’s to set a ring, but some these can be replaced with tape or slippers Use two or three obis to make a circle (or mark 4 corners of the tatami). And let’s wrestle Japanese style. So two people get into the circle […]
Koshita
Learning: The wrong distance gets you ‘killed’. Attributes: Foam bokken, folded obi or rolled up news paper will work too. The senpai or sensei (who wears a hakama) is in the middle and has to protect their back. There for they have a foam bokken. (A folded obi/rolled up newspaper does the trick, too.) Whoever gets […]