Last night Mike and I warmed-up and after ukemi practice, worked on the following techniques:
- shomenuchi iriminage two variations
- shomenuchi ikkyo omote and ura
- tanto-tori tsuki iriminage
- tanto-tori tsuki ikkyo omote and ura
Mike had some questions about how nage would respond to different types of tanto (knife) attacks. We worked through a couple of kokyunages, specificly when attacked with circular slash attack across nage's midsection required nage to step-in and to trap the tanto with doing a elbow atemi to uke's midsection (taking inspiration from Saotome Sensei's direct atemi style from the Halloween Seminar). I try to encourage Mike and in all of my classes of asking questions and then working on the movements to respond to novel or different attack vectors On one of the ikkyo-style tanto-tori, Mike and I ended up grappling because I lost leverage by applying an ineffective ikkyo-pin. It is a rare Aikido class where we work on any grappling techniques other than the standard seated pins and maybe sura-waza techniques. I showed Mike a couple of easy openings for an arm-bar or elbow pin. In the future of my martial arts training, I may take some classes with more a grappling focus to improve this dimension of my Aikido.
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