Kokyu nage - Kokyu Ho
Two different beast all together? You guys familiar with the differences?
Its my understanding, unless I messing up techniques, that Kokyu Ho is where you bring your and ukes wrist to center as you step in front of uke...
- you then raise your arm up...up...infront of ukes face...until its as high/higher and he begins to loose balance and you push back causing him to fall backwards.
Now on to Kokyu Nage (maybe this is on my Aikido 3D program, Ill soon check)...anyway, this seems to be a pointless technique that has no real world usage at all.
Uke grabs your wrist and you move your arm up and then down to throw them...makes no sense when you think of doing this in real life, I just dont see it working.
It seems Aikido is divided into 3 areas...
1- pinning techniques
2-throwing techniqes
3 - breathing techniques (which the above is listed in I suppose) which dont seem to do anything whatsover...with the exception that Kokyu Ho seems practical...it gets Uke off balance...
...but Kokyu naga...honestly, you raise your hand and put it down and uke is going to be thrown. Well, maybe there is more to it and someone can share their experience.
peace
dAlen
p.s. - moves are done in Gyaku Hanmi katate tori
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