Visual documentation / explaination of technique

Feel free to completly flame me if I'm posting in the wrong forum and/or speaking about a FAQ, but I felt I should ask about this.

I think my potential problem stems from my thinking too much about footwork-handwork, etc. Well, that and my complete lack of physical training.

But, are there any visual representations of the techniques out there? Best I can describe it is like... step by step drawn characters. I vaugly remember seeing something like this before, but I'm not sure. (That's why it's a foggy memory. )

Do I make sense?

I guess, sometimes when I think about things or watch a demonstration I find it hard to take what I see, invert it and apply it to what my hands should be doing.

Again, lack of training.

I also thought it'd be fun to look at some pictures on lunch break.


-Tom

Lots of books out there. Ask people in your dojo, so you don't end up with a book of another technical direction than that of your teachers.

Oh, and you sound like a perfectly normal newbie to me. You'll learn how to dissect the technique ou see into portions you know.

Hanna

Hi

I'm an ASU guy myself, but one of the best books as far as step by step photographic representations of technique that I have found is Total Aikido by Gozo Shioda (Yoshinkan) Excellent photographs from the most beneficial angles. I don't know what flavour of Aikido you do, and the Yoshinkan stuff is pretty specific as far as how they do techniques, but I think over all it's a good representation of proper form in any style. Dynamic Aikido also by Shioda may be the same, but I've never looked at that one.

http://www.coolrain.com/

Aikido In Training. Excellent. Videos, too.

http://www.aikidojournal.com/new/

The Saito and Nishio series. Excellent.