Quote:
Christian Mikkelson wrote:
Not sure: "shomen uchi ikkajo osae ichi" is a technique. Would you say "ikkajo" is a technique?
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Isn't it just a matter of convention?
I'm an aikikai student.
Watching I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM7XJ98gV74 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZnJjW7NVo I would say that
shomen uchi ikkajo osae ichi in yoshinkan is
shomen uchi ikkyo omote in aikikai and
shomen uchi ikkajo osae ni in yoshinkan is
shomen uchi ikkyo ura in aikikai.
To me it seems that
shomen uchi (forehead strike) is the attack and the defense (elbow lock) is called
ikkajo osae in yoshinkan and
ikkyo in aikikai.
Omote and
ura are positioning variations meaning "the front" and "the back" (of the attacker).
In my experience,
technique in aikikai usually refers to what the defender does (
ikkyo omote, or just
ikkyo). One of my teachers regularly states that aikido has only a small numbers of techniques. But in some contexts,
technique refers to the combination of attack and defense (like
shomen uchi ikkyo omote), on a list of test requirements for example.
So perhaps what is commonly called a
technique in aikikai, might be called a
series in yoshinkan. I've never heard about
series in aikikai.