Ikkajo
- deliver a front strike / initiate with a front strike / strike
- Turn your hips, slide diagonally forward from your front foot, as you cut down with both arms.
- Raise your lower arm to block
- make a big pivot backwards as you cut down, taking Uke’s balance forwards
- sit down with one knee in Uke’s armpit, like shikko-ho
- place the other knee down on the mat, with your knee, hand and uke’s wrist together
- stretch your spine, relax and drop your hips to pin
Nikajo
- Go with the pull
- open your hips and align your back leg to create the right distance.
- keep some distance
- change hands, change direction
- shift your weight to pin
- place uke’s little finger in the inside of your elbow
January 15th 2017:
- slide diagonally forward
- strike
- turn to face your partner
- hold the inside of your partner’s wrist
- hold the back of your partner’s hand
- lock the wrist, elbow and shoulder
- cut down
Sankajo
- Slide your hand down to Uke’s finger tips
- Make sure their is no play in Uke’s shoulder
- Keep Uke’s arm in the Sankajo position
Yonakjo
- slide your hand down from uke’s elbow (into the yonkajo grip / to the soft part of uke’s wrist)
- raise up / cut down in a circular motion
- Take uke to the mat
Sokumen Irimnage
- moving with Uke’s pull, slide forward from your front foot. Make a T shape with your (foot) and Uke’s foot, changing direction slightly, dropping (and drop) your hips like seiza-ho.
- Enter behind Uke in a circular motion like Tai no Henko 1. Pull your back leg into Kamae.
Shomen Iriminage
- (make sure you open you hips as you strike)
- finishing with your thumbs down
- keep focused on uke
Shomen Uchi Kote Gaeshi 2
- using your front foot as an axis, make a big pivot.
- roll uke on to their front
- adjust/turn your bottom hand so that your fingers are facing down