I wish there was a translation. These strikes are a very important part of the art and very much overlooked or disregarded as only a training exercise. I have used open hand strikes twice (yokomen uchi and gyaku yokomen uchi respectively) in real combative situations. Once while working as a jail guard and a prisoner jumped out at me while yelling. The second as a hospital security guard when a psychiatric patient grabbed my ASP baton. Both times I remember that my arm and wrist were strong (like Aikido un bendable arm exercise) while my hand was relaxed. Both times, I hit with the bone at the base of my hand near the wrist on the pinky side. The prisoner I struck in the temple and psych patient in the jaw close to the kyusho point. The results were devastating both times. The prisoner dropped to the floor semi conscious and the psych patient lost a tooth and stopped fighting similar to a standing knock out. There was a LOT of paperwork following both incidents as well.
It's like a cooking knife or a cleaver; the part of the blade closest to the handle will generate the most force. So regardless of blade length, the ma-ai for ikkyo should always be at arm's length. This has been demonstrated by Mitsugi Saotome Shihan before, with a handshake for the correct distancing (ma-ai), and I'm sure there are other Aikido teachers who did the same as well.
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Nothing makes me wish I spoke Japanese more than these videos.
I wish there was a translation. These strikes are a very important part of the art and very much overlooked or disregarded as only a training exercise.
I have used open hand strikes twice (yokomen uchi and gyaku yokomen uchi respectively) in real combative situations. Once while working as a jail guard and a prisoner jumped out at me while yelling. The second as a hospital security guard when a psychiatric patient grabbed my ASP baton.
Both times I remember that my arm and wrist were strong (like Aikido un bendable arm exercise) while my hand was relaxed. Both times, I hit with the bone at the base of my hand near the wrist on the pinky side. The prisoner I struck in the temple and psych patient in the jaw close to the kyusho point. The results were devastating both times. The prisoner dropped to the floor semi conscious and the psych patient lost a tooth and stopped fighting similar to a standing knock out. There was a LOT of paperwork following both incidents as well.
As my Japanese is very basic is he saying Shomen Uchi should come from the elbow?
It's like a cooking knife or a cleaver; the part of the blade closest to the handle will generate the most force. So regardless of blade length, the ma-ai for ikkyo should always be at arm's length.
This has been demonstrated by Mitsugi Saotome Shihan before, with a handshake for the correct distancing (ma-ai), and I'm sure there are other Aikido teachers who did the same as well.
The history behind this movements. The dead left the living what did and what did not worked in the battlefield.
Monsiuer whats hes saying in general?
Subtitles?
Translation PLEASE
Merci .)
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