From Farrow Sensei's morning class I showed how lining up the spine and improving the posture allows for an katatetori ikkyo that follows along nage's center axis. I then switched to Hofmeister Sensei's surawaza ikkyo uke-and-nage connection exercise and repeated Hofmeister Sensei's observations that "You don't do Aikido to someone else; Aikido is not done to you".
Next, we practiced Doran Sensei's katatetori ikkyo with emphasis on nage's turning the grabbed hand palm-up and thrusting into uke, forcing uke's elbow up for the ikkyo application with nage's other hand.
Finally, I related Saotome Sensei's account of some senior students coming back from traveling to O'Sensei's dojo. Asked if they had been practicing ikkyo; they replied they didn't need to because they had "master it". O'Sensei laughed and said that "Ikkyo is a lifetime technique". I then showed a couple finer points of ikkyo that Saotome Sensei showed us; including the danger of an uke's reversal with a groin strike or leg sweep if nage tries a straight take-down. I also showed the old-style ikkyo pin that Saotome Sensei showed during a technique demonstration.
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