This has been a very unsettling several weeks, with Harrill Sensei’s passing away clouding our lives.
But our efforts continue to move along.
Among our several studies.
SunNuSu Kata applications.
Against an attacker's right grab/punch
RFF, with a right open hand cross parry and the left open hand (nukite) reaching out at the same time to touch the opponent’s abdomen.
Right back elbow strike to the opponent's jaw.
What we discover isn’t the initial use of the left hand as a strike (though that potential exists) but as a movement to close your distance on the attacker. Simply touching them as you parry their strike, make it impossible not to hit their head with the reverse elbow strike.
This is also in that range of interior line of defense techniques that close the distance to the attacker automatically simply by using the kata.
Against an attacker grabbing your right hand with their left
Your left footsteps to the rear, you drop into horse stance as you’re turning 90 degrees from the attack, and you chamber your right hand directly into your right hip.
This will pull the attacker forward, overextending them, and using the descending bent elbow ‘parry’, turns their arm over in the process.
Next, use the right backfist as a rolling strike over into their wrist. If they’re trying to hang on to you, they lock themselves up very neatly. Having overextended the attacker, this in turn whips them over with a good backfist strike.
Then use the step over to stomp into their leg, or if their left foot was forward, use the left to close forward and then the right gouging front kick to finish (both are reasonable)
From Bando’s the Hidden stick.
Worked on the overhead parry/block take away technique.
Worked several neck takedowns, from a side angle entry, and from the rear. (These are extremely dangerous to practice and must be done with care.
Aikido training
I discussed how Aikido is a derivative of Usheiba’s original training in Daito Ryu Aiki Jutsu, as well as offers two categories of techniques, locks and projections..
Usheiba, in the pre-WWII years, when teaching a more martial aikido closer to his roots, had to deal with the issue of his students needed skill beyond their years of training (so they could be good soldiers, irony here very heavy). In that light, his use of atemi (striking) to create openings to follow with aikido technique, would close the gap of entry technique not needing those strikes, but taking many years to achieve, too. [after WWII, Usheiba moved aikido’s direction into two-person exercise, away from the more martial uses. Reportedly he felt after atomic weapons, aikido for martial uses was irrelevant]
Specifically, I was working on more exact technique execution, using correct alignment to make the control effortless (if possible). I was also concentrating on the locks as openings for projections, too!
Interestingly, Aiki-Jutsu’s techniques somewhat arose from sword striking techniques, where the hands are used as if holding a sword in them (instead using the opponent's arm). This is still used in aikido.
Shiho-Nage (4 direction throw) against:
Handshake countered by the Shiho Nage.
Driving strike using a left parry with the right hand lightly on top, creating a wedging block as the opening. Actually this is so close to Chinto’s double ‘x-block’ sequence its eery.
Driving strike where you’re side-stepping with an SunNuSu type double open outer parry. From this parry, a faster entry and shiho nage application derives.
Arm Bar projections
Opponent drives a right strike forward.
Using knee release to shift slightly left, the right open hand outer parry wedges their strike away.
Grab their wrist with your right.
Release your right knee, pivot on the right ball of your foot, and stride forward across their arm with a forearm punch sliding across their triceps.
Turn them over but use your stepping to drive them down.
During the projection, the alignment of the left and right hands would be as striking down with a sword.
San Kyu projections.
Against a right wrist grab
Roll your center to the left and your right hand follows keeping the center line.
This overextends their arm, specifically stressing their little finger side.
Take your left hand and lightly touch the back of their wrist
Then either:
Open your right hand and maneuver it palm to palm with theirs locking thumbs bending their hand up with their palm remaining down.
Roll your right hand over and grab their right wrist, your index finger pointing across their center line.
With either opening, roll your right hand in towards their centerline as your left hand slides up towards the elbow and grabs there.
At this time, the right presses in and the left raises, bending their arm in a lot of pain to avoid.
When they rise on their toes, use that opening to step across their line of attack and cut down with both hands, the left projecting down and the right raising up. Again as if you were striking down with a sword.
Kaiten Nage (outer wrist turn projections)
Showed how exterior and interior lines of defense could enter into the kaiten nage.
Worked the interior rolling entry, where the right hand parries down and over (counterclockwise) into the left hand grasping the wrist. Then using the right open hand to press their wrist down, turn them over 90 degrees for the projection.
Worked the Sutrisno Aiki Menkyo variation, taking the kaiten nage projection only ½ way and instead pressing the bent wrist down towards their triceps insertion (wrist and elbow being bent and the pressure on the hand focused on the triceps insertion). For a straight force back.
Then began working the exterior line of defense entry with a left cross press down, both hands grabbing, and then various stepping methods to allow you to place the attacker anywhere on a 360-degree plane. Very valuable study to show how to place the attacker before other potential attackers.
Advanced movement from interior line of defense to exterior line of defense. (Such shifts are dangerous unless perfectly executed….but)
Opponent stepping with a driving right punch.
Stepping a little in with the right, left open hand parry to the side (wedging effect) with right strike to a) face, b) shoulder c) throat d) anywhere to stop their forward motion a bit.
Raising their arm, your right footstep underneath and you shift into the exterior.
As you do so your right hand rises and grabs the outside of their right wrist, you left maintaining your grab on their arm too.
Step behind with your left, rotate your body counterclockwise facing in the opposite direction they’re facing, and rotate their arm clockwise down and to the rear.
Step forward (actually to 11 o’clock) maintaining the grab on their arm (which has been turned over in the process). Your stepping drives your body against their triceps.
A very powerful projection that could break their arm (must be practiced very carefully).
Leaving the Go-kyu lock/projection/break for another day.
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