
An anniversary
... all the years of learning the method had served no other purpose than to prepare us for this new challenge.
... all the years of learning the method had served no other purpose than to prepare us for this new challenge.
It is commonly believed that O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba was interested in Aikido. This is not the case.
There are several methods, and I think Morihiro Saito's is the best. But there's also Gozo Shioda's method and Koichi Tohei's method, which are interesting in many ways. And then there's the Aikikai method.
In the morote dori grip, the opponent's arm is held like a sword, the back of his forearm embodying the back of the blade.
If the technique demonstrated here is called kokyu ho rather than kokyu nage, it is because she is particularly significant of kokyu ho, and the name is in this case explicit, instructive, and therefore useful.
The techniques of kote gaeshi, nikyo and sankyo are not ‘wrist lock’ techniques, as is too often said.