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Joe McParland wrote:
As I understand it, iriminage is fundamentally about taking advantage of uke's trying to stand back up. Uke wants to rise from an off-balanced forward position; nage helps.
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The way I was taught irimi nage, what uke wanted to do is irrelevant. What if instead of wanting to stand, he tries to dive and take down your leading leg? You don't want to give him that option, which is a tsuki or opening in many versions of irimi nage that you see. If you are in the right position, body to body but completely behind uke, then you are safe and can throw him even without resorting to a tenkan to knock him off balance so that he has to put one or two hands on the mat. If you look at the irimi nage of Osensei from the 1930s, or of Saito Morihiro, they have that quality of blending and getting behind uke. They don't give uke a chance to choose what to do when his balance is taken.
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