Kito, Yon kata, tegatana no kata and the big picture.

This was floating around the friendly webosphere the other day.  It was labeled as something from a kito-ryu dojo, and it has a lot of things that look pretty damn familiar.  I got watching a lot of this guys work and he seems to have a knack for pointing out the obvious basics of movement.   He does some things judo, some things aikido, and some things that ive seen daito ryu guys do on the webosphere.  This guy is definately my type of guy.  

I don't know if this is some sort of kito kata/ exercise but I'd definately like to learn it as part of my tomiki tool box..  I don't do judo and I get it exposed to it here and there.  This kind of thing seems to teach a lot of things that  a tomiki guy should know.  It fills in some blanks in a simple kata that would maybe take you several months to piece together in a judo class.    

Everything that I see goes through the filter of analysis called the tegatana no kata, especially the old school yamada version.  You can see a lot of  similar ideas between what the "kito" fellow is playing with and yamada's walking. Especially when you think of walking movements with the first 14 moves of Yon kata.   In the other "kito" vid you see the guy playing with an offbalance idea.  He looks like he  goes deep and shallow with ukes arm, and then he starts messing with ukes head in a way that seems familiar yet out of place because it goes against some the "principle" that we've drank up in our branch.  If you think of it in a kito frame the dunk the head in the toilet idea is probably catching your hand on the back side lip of a samurai helmet. The kaiten nage is  between a guys shoulder and the side lip of his samurai helmet.  Puts a whole new/old frame on the iriminage counters in the first 14 of yon kata.  

  If you watch the first 7 of Yon Kata look for the dunk the head in the toilet ideas in the chudan kuzushi pair iriminage dunk/kaiten nage dunk.  The other  kuzushi ideas show up in the "kito" kata as well as big as Dallas.   I alway's had a problem figuring out our releases as ways to offbalances.  It seemed like the second and fourth release were the real articles and 1st and third seemed like bounce back ideas off of the other two.  

It's been said that Tomiki aikido is really part daito ryu and kito ryu.   Even though I'm a newbie dipshit i'd say its more kito ryu than daito ryu.  When I went to an akikai seminar in town I got a lot of no eye contact, turd in the punch bowl type interactions from the hakama dans because I moved much differently than them.  I guess I see the aikido as this won't work but it will load up potential for the next thing to work interaction .  Things have to rise to fall, and fall to rise.   Aikikai and related schools see it as the technique is the technique. you do it and the guy falls for you. end of story. There isnt a cloud of potential surrounding each technique.

                     


Anyway,  when you fall trap to that evil comparison game of us and them.   You have to realize that Tomiki Aikido may have similar labels, but its a whole other animal than morty-ryu.  At least post war morty-ryu.  I think the daito/kito is a good label.  Morty -ryu aikido can be called softened daito ryu.