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Setok · 08-06-2022, 04:15 PM

As I understand it, omote quite literally means front in Japanese, and ura behind or rear. I'm not sure if it's worth reading anything more into it than that. The way we do omote and ura kaitennage are different. While the omote is not as clearly ‘in front' as, say, ikkyo, it lacks the step behind and 180 turn that the ura version has at the throwing step. So omote is throwing to the forwards direction that uke is pointing to and omote is switching to throwing to the rear direction.

The soto vs uchi is a different thing. So there are basically 4 ways a kaitennage can play out.

08-06-2022, 04:15 PM	#2
Setok Dojo: Ryushinkan / Rajamäki \| Sasuga Daito Ryu / Helsinki Location: Helsinki Join Date: Dec 2019 Posts: 28 Offline	Re: Meaning of omote and ura in Aikido As I understand it, omote quite literally means front in Japanese, and ura behind or rear. I'm not sure if it's worth reading anything more into it than that. The way we do omote and ura kaitennage are different. While the omote is not as clearly ‘in front' as, say, ikkyo, it lacks the step behind and 180 turn that the ura version has at the throwing step. So omote is throwing to the forwards direction that uke is pointing to and omote is switching to throwing to the rear direction. The soto vs uchi is a different thing. So there are basically 4 ways a kaitennage can play out.