Yuki's Shodo-calligraphy course "Hiragana"

ドイツでの私のコースではまず初めにひらがなでの名前を練習します。
次に画数の少なめな漢字1字の楷書で書道筆（半紙用）の使い方を体験してもらいます。
線の勢いや力強さを表現するため、特に姿勢にポイントを置いた指導をします。
次にひらがなで行書や草書の基本となる筆法の連綿や筆の返しなどを練習し、
最後に少し難しい行書に入ると超初心者でもだいたいこなせます。

In my course in Germany, first of all course students learn their name in Hiragana without any writting technique. Then they start to practise the first theme, one Kanji with few strokes in the block style to experience how to use middle big calligraphy brush (for Hanshi/special caligraphy paper 24x33cm). I put the accent on the posture, to express momentum and power of the line.
And then they practice Hiragana-wrting. Hiragana is often considered as a theme for children in calligraphy, but the method of writing Hiragana is quite difficult and that lead to basic writting technics for "Gyousho/semi-cursiv style" or "Shousho/cursiv-style" like "Renmen/continuity of line" and "Fude no kaeshi/turning of the brush". After this Hiragana-practice, even a beginner can write difficult Gyousho in general.