
The primary spiral
Every time you do shiho nage, ikkyo is there, and every time you do ikkyo, shiho nage is there. They are like two sides of the same coin.
Philippe Voarino studied at the dojo of the Founder of Aikido, in Iwama. Master Saito passed on his method to him, encouraging him to discover, beyond this teaching tool, the true art of O Sensei.
Every time you do shiho nage, ikkyo is there, and every time you do ikkyo, shiho nage is there. They are like two sides of the same coin.
Master Saito's genius laid in seeing what made the transmission of Aikido difficult and finding a way to address this difficulty gradually, by breaking down the movement into different stages.
Any Aikido technique begins with hanmi, and any Aikido technique ends with hanmi.