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Old 01-19-2008, 02:44 PM   #5
Ellis Amdur
 
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Re: How do you do your koshinage?

There is a quote in one of the interviews on Aikido Journal where Saito Morihiro stated that Ueshiba told him that Koshinage was his favorite technique. (Given that ogoshi was Jigoro Kano's favorite technique, perhaps this puts a different slant on Kano's statement that "this is my ideal budo" - or however he put it. Perhaps he just recognized they were working their hips the same way, that the perfect "hip throw," is, in fact, a "hip trip."
BTW - my memory of Nishio sensei's koshinage is it WAS a judo throw - hips of uke and nage are in the same line. Ueshiba (and Tohei, in some of the films) use a different principal - the hips of nage are perpendicular to that of uke.
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