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.
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.