Thread: Yonkyo
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Old 08-28-2000, 09:26 AM   #20
Dan Hover
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Yes and Yes

[quote]Chris wrote:
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akiy wrote:
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Cas Long wrote in a different thread:
In my experience, Yonkyo proves more effective on the thinner, more tensile arm , & is more "difficult" to apply on an arm which is thicker.....this is because the technique relies on the compression of the radial nerve which appears closer to the surface of the first type of arm than the latter.
I'd have to disagree with the above. In my opinion, yonkyo is not a pain compliance technique. In fact, I don't think any technique in aikido relies on pain but on kuzushi or balance breaking.

Sure, the pain part might be there, but it needn't be nor should it be relied upon. Better in my opinion to treat techniques like nikkyo and yonkyo as balance breaking techniques than pain-producing ones. The pain is just the icing on the proverbial cake in my mind...

-- Jun
was wondering where you made the association?
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Having said that, I am wondering why ‘O'-Sensei would have spent many long arduous years codifying the techniques of Aikido into the specific groupings that we know today,
all the codifying that we know today actually came from Nidai doshu who standardized the Aikido Curriculum to help the internatinal spread. In so far as the pins are concerned these were not at all his own origin.

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I would say that 'pain' is a by-product of the technique being executed correctly. Since the radial nerve when found and pressured can be quite sensitive.

Yonkyo is still possible without ‘pain', so the complete form of the technique must be studied from the initial un-balancing right up to the final pin.
Aren't you in essence agreeing with what Jun just said?
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I think that the technique is designed to impart Ken holding principles through the holding pattern and the development of strong hip turns in the pin. ‘Pain' results when the technique is precisely applied.

as are most Aikido Techniques

Dan Hover

of course that's my opinion, I could be wrong
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