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Chris Parkerson wrote:
Mark and I were doing tappy tappy last Sunday hubud lubud and a few others).
He was trying to pull me into a long drawn out Ikkyo front takedown but the sweat caused too much slippage - not unlike what we see in this judo aikido video but without gi.
It is hard to create kuzushi when the center is guarded like in tappy drills or with this cautious judo man. But traditional ippon dori done with small circle at the shoulder works just fine to accomplish the same Ikkyo take down. But you must change the entry strategy. Same with this judo man in the clip.
You cannot go into a linear or big circle "yin" receiving of an attack if the opponent's center is guarded. But if you apply aiki center touching (like a sonar pinging forward) kuzushi begins at the opponent's far left toe and a small dynamic sphere happens as you bleed the kuzushi forward into the toes of both feet - along what Ledyard calls the "seam" - a simple Ikkyo curve. Crash the line
and make it happen.
Fun stuff with or without a knife.
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Agreed... and Mark is good... but I am better.
LOL (just ribbing you Mark) Forget Ikkyo and Nikkyo a little Irimi Nage and it's many variations seems to work best for me "belly to belly"
Ippon Dori sounds good too. In my experience with drills... most Aikidoka seem to get "lost" by taking their focus off Uke's center and concentrate on the arm. This just tells me they have not made the transition from basic arm grab practice in class to Irimi. When I see someone do this... I just roll with it and crash into their center as a gentle reminder.
To a BJJ or Judo Guy it's like handing yourself over on a silver platter. That in my opinion was the Aikido dudes issue on the vid.The Judoka would take his mind by grabbing his arm and then woosh! He was on his back.
and you're right when you enter (aka crash the line) thats when the magic may happen though you're fooling yourself if you don't think a Judoka or Grappler does not know how to handle this. So the hard part in Aikido is to make sure they "come to you" by you staying open or as Shoji Nishio puts it Yurusu Aiki aka "Accept The Attack."
Easy to describe but unless you practice "live"... very hard to do.
(Just ask my chin or backside.
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William Hazen
PS. It's one reason some folks hate to train with me as their Uke because I was taught that without a sincere effort Nage would never learn anything... Indeed... weak attacks will actually erode a Nage's chances to improve. Thats another thing to take away from Tohei's vid.
If you don't learn to "use it"... you will definitely never "have it".... when you "need it".