- katatetori tenkan kokyunage
- katatetori irimi kokyunage
- I decided to focus on two opening movements, uchi and soto, with a katatetori attack for the rest of the night starting off with a katatetori uchi tenkan kokyunage
- katatetori uchi kokyunage
- katatetori soto tenkan kokyunage
- katatetori uchi kaiten nage tenkan omote
- katatetori uchi kaiten nage tenkan ura
- katatetori soto kaiten nage tenkan
- katatetori soto kaitenage omote
- katatetori uchi iriminage, two different variations that I haven't seen before. In the first iriminage, nage creates the opening movement by sliding underneath uke and then using the free arm and hand slides, extends into uke and does the iriminage throw off the non-grabbed hand. In the iriminage second uchi variation, nage does a complete tenkan and then slides behind uke for the iriminage throw.
I joked after class that I didn't want to claim the iriminages because they did feel forced. I have never seen these iriminage variations before in classes or seminars I have attended over the years, that although they weren't the strongest and most fluid iriminages I have done, it is demostration of the almost infinite variations available on simple themes(and to be clear, I am not claiming I invented anything).
Aikido provides an outlet of physical creativity and focus unlike any other activity I do. Aikido is a modern budo and not a kata-based martial art. Although creative and fluid movement is a characteristic of Aikido, the deeper levels of the Art don't start opening up unless your focus is martial. . Aikido allows for constrained improvisation in responding to violence and chaos. The only way I was able to develop these iriminages is because as I train more, I have a wider scale in which my body knows similar movements from hours and years of practice and I just know the technique will work.
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