Technique Reference

All,
I would like to build a list of techniques used in Aikido and collect descriptions of their execution. If you feel like contributing please name your technique and describe as detailed as you can how you execute it. If you want to take it further let us know where it falls in your list of favorites and maybe even your evaluation of it's effectiveness!

I expect I will see the same technique described in lots of different ways. For example I know that some perform kotegaeshi using a very large circle. Others try to keep it the size of a small yo-yo or smaller, just turning the wrist over.

This should be fun!

Dude, you may as well go out in the yard and put a label on each blade of grass....it'll probably take less time

Bronson

IMHO, actually there are a very limited number of technqiues. Jun has a great list right here on the web. Its the variation and combinations of approach, situations, and applications that are infinite. Be careful of the "unless otherwise named" kokyu-nages that will really drive your project nuts.

I have to agree with Lynn. There are really a handful of techniques but unlimited ways to apply them.

Shawn Warner wrote: I have to agree with Lynn. There are really a handful of techniques but unlimited ways to apply them.

Actually I also agree, but I took the original post to mean you are looking for all the individual personal variations of technique that the good folks on AikiWeb are doing.

Bronson

Hi,

When I trained with John Stevens in Sendai, I wrote out each technique we learned each day until we got to about a thousand, and then I got tired of writing. Stevens Sensei told me he had done the same with his teacher Shirata Rinjiro, and got tired of writing after several thousand. These were not personal variations but actual techniques that were passed down from Morihei Ueshiba.

Charles Hill