Tornado hand games

What we did on Tuesday 17 April 2012

A look at the latest developments in understanding tatsumaki te (tornado hands).

Working models cum coordination exercises:  

Cubic game:  Describing conjoined circles on a cube; front face clockwise, top clockwise, left side forwards, back clockwise, bottom clockwise, right hand side forwards.  Then repeat in with counter clockwise and backwards circles.

Spherical game: Describing eight incremental lines of longitude on sphere with vertical axis, then with lateral axis and then with longitudinal axis.

Then extending this to both hands in unison, following, contrary movement.

Finally extending to working difference cubic faces with each hand and different spherical axis with each hand.

Remainder of the session was working the takedowns from Kata Channan.