Saturday morning practice at 0830 – it’s not for snowflakes. Shomen-uchi was the attack which of course could be a punch to the face. Don’t get stuck in linguistic ruts that occlude your ability to see the similarities. The warm up was suwariwaza with the basic dexterity familiarization: ikkyo, nikkyo, sankyo, yonkyo in a linkedContinue reading “SPEAR HAND IN AIKIDO”
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IKKYO – HENKA WAZA
In Levels of Training, I used the three levels of Shoden – Chuden – Okuden as the framework. In Japanese, there are other terms of distinction that describe a progression of waza through a hierarchical framework would be: kihon, ki no nagare, oyo, henka, kanren, and kaeshi-waza. I prefer to collapse these distinctions and callContinue reading “IKKYO – HENKA WAZA”
ENTRIES
Closing Skills as described in an earlier post challenges the idea that Aikido is a defensive art. Aikido is not a defensive art because you cannot prevail by defending. Rather we use ABD to place the aggressor in a disadvantageous position – we draw the attack so as to be ahead of the aggressor’s OODA loop. What weContinue reading “ENTRIES”
Protective Arts 