Sometimes you learn best when you stand around with your hands in your pockets and look at the world with a friendly take it or leave it attitude.
Mr. Clean does a damn good job at showing the variations of this thing. The kid in the stripes couldnt give a shit. evidently, hes in take or leave it mode with a strong preference for leave it. You won't ever see this forty two year old uke taking that kind of falls. If I want that kind of experience I'll lay over a motor scooter. But like I said, this guy covers it with ranch dressing while dazzling the children.
Lets look at the windsong dojo version.
Here's an Irimi nage
Lot of big falls in that, but somehow it seemed non testosterone mode to me. The soothing background music helps.
Back to what Nick Lowry said about the elbow control being the central feature. Watch what Iain Abernathy does with arm in the way striking mainly from the inside.
Here is a daito ryu dude. I think its somewhere around 3:30 range. but you'll see a hand on the elbow and a hand on the face. I got an arm in the way style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZA8e--Yb-4
I talked to Nick after this video came out video coming out. I asked "elbow control being a central feature?" He admitted that it was in the version he was describing, and not as a defining factor of the aigamae ate condition. In fact Tomiki Sensei often demonstrated this technique 'uchi' inside, not behind the elbow at all.
ReplyDeleteI am a literalist in the techniques. Aigamae ate is a matching stance condition. If your right foot is forward, and his right foot is forward - this is the aigamate condition. Where and what your hands are doing is often personal preference.
Please drop your security a bit. It took me 8 tries to get past that damn robot - goofy writing screen.
ReplyDeleteI worry about getting smacked with an elbow. they hurt like hell and I like to know where they are. If you look at the the atemi waza as a 180 degree thing. you have all the way inside looking at the guy(showme, half inside looking at the guy(igotanarm), all the way out looking across the guy(gollyyougotme), half way inside looking at what hes looking at(geewhiz dan), all the way inside looking where hes looking(usure about this)--okie
Deletei think i fixed the bot. not sure. somebody get on and tell me aikido sucks and I should rubnuts and go BJJ with someone.
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