Bushi No Te Aikido Drills

I studied these aikido drills the first night I trained with Tristan Sutrisno in 1980. Later I incorporated them into my program at green belt as they are a great way to 1.) learn how to enter and work the space an attack offers, and 2.) Learn a bit about how aikido works too.

IMO they are aikido presented as a way to introduce the students of his Shotokan system to this art. The techniques are a blend of Aikido, Karate and perhaps Tjimande.



This first presentation is how I shared the first 6 drills with my youth students.

Aikido drills 1-6 1989 

 

Then adult students learn drills 1-8 between green and brown belt training. The remaining drills are for advancing dan study.

 

Aikido Drills

 

Aikido 1

Aikido 1a  

Aikido 2   

Aikido 3 

Aikido 4 

Aikido 5 

 

Aikido 6 

Aikido 7   

Aikido 8  

Aikido 9 

 

          Tris doing No 9

 

Aikido 10 

Aikido 11  

 

Aikido No 3 Young and Marc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6--YFehpw

Aikido No 2 Young and Marc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKuh_IgW0s

Aikido No 1 Young and Marc 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUnSrrdS13k

 

Aikido No 1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC3TYZCTHaA

Aikido No 2   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WGUq7iRXrQ

Aikido No 2b Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THrc6S0wV4I

Aikido No 3 Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV3wnGnfk6w

Aikido No 4 Mike  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYtuD_6xfWM

Aikido No 5  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_FRt3qgwuY

Aikido No 6 Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Mspi7MBW

 
Aikido 9  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la3mqtW7wm8

 
Tom Chan training with a friend in Massachusetts acquired this drill from that source. Seeing it I realized how much it had to offer our black belts and became another black belt drill from that time on.

 

Aikido locking chain Mike

 

Aikido locking chain Young

The purpose of these drills is not just to teach some Aikido.

Rather they are teaching how to use the space an attack offers

then to use that space to take the opponent out.

They are taught at brown belt to offer skill development

To be used in later kata application skills.