Seminar today with Jo Birdsong

• Parts of doing a technique

1. Ready position - in hanmi
2. Movement
1. Facing same direction as uke
2. Moving off line of attack & establishing a 2nd line
3. Entering safety zone
3. Actually performing the technique
4. Zanshin - follow thru

• nage is helping lead his partner, the direction he should be going - not fighting him
• return to hanmi after each movement (hanmi, move, return to hanmi)
• Tenshin - step to the back corner; adjust your new front foot into hanmi (move it back if necessary)
• When nage offers his hand palm up, uke should grab on top, not from underneath. Othewise, nage can just curl his arm up and hit uke.
• In many techniques, nage wants to extend uke's near arm and shoulder toward nage, so uke's free hand is out of range to strike nage.