Some Aiki-Jujitsu for Street Situations

Worked on some of the test review for two students.

Josh Sensei taught today's class and we did a more "street" oriented class today since there were no mats.

We worked off the principal idea that someones going to come at you and throw a few Jabs to set you up for the Roundhouse punch or "power punch" that's coming.  This was done where the Uke throws several jabs at Nage's face to set them up for the big hit.  As Uke throws the jabs Nage merely makes contact with the jab to make sure it doesn't hit them and does not slap it away to create a new situation.  The contact is merely to judge and not focus to heavily on the jab.  After a few jabs the roundhouse punch comes.  As soon as Nage sees them wind up for this punch the Irimi in and the arm on the same side of the Roundhouse shoots in to make contact with Uke's inner elbow and collapse carryover this strike to get their back facing Nage.  As this arm is carried over the other arm makes contact and holds it down while the carry-over arm delivers an elbow strike to the nose and breaks their nose.  Then you Tenkan around to their open side and deliver a cross arm strike to the groin or inner thigh area and continue walking past them.  This was a really great technique for a sudden fast encounter with someone who is trying to fight with you.

The second technique we worked on was again wit ha jab intro but instead of waiting for the big hit from Uke, Nage stays connected with their Jab and as soon as they throw it you make contact with it on the top of their fist and as they retract their jab, in a real situation someone would not want to leave their hand with you so they will withdraw it, you step forward and use your energy to push their arm into them.  Now they have several options left, none of which are very favorable for them.  We practiced with them throwing a punch with their back arm.  As Uke throws the second punch you move your elbow up and carry over this punch with the initial arm you used to make contact with their jab.  As you carry it over you put them into a Sankyo and then drop it to a two finger Kubitori lock.  You pull this down into your armpit as if you were putting a Gokyu lock on their wrist but instead have their 2 or 3 fingers in the lock.  As you break those fingers you stretch through their face with the other arm and cause them to loose balance and fall back and you deliver the final strike with your other arm which should release the hand after breaking the fingers.

This was a great blending of Aikido and a lot of Jujitsu and street defense for today's class.  Really enjoyed getting a look at other aspects of the art.

Reversals and Grappling

Worked on reversals:

Reversal from a Sankyo, as they are placing the lock you continue your arm along the circle it creates with your body and pull your arm down as your grab onto their wrist and apply a counter lock of Nikyu, Gokyu etc.  <explain more>

Reversal from a ski to kotagaeshi to kotagaeshi, as punch comes in they counter with kotagaeshi and as they Tenkan around for hte lock you jump around the circle and place you foot next to theirs and Tenkan to use their momentum against them and apply your own tenkan.  Need to remember Tenkan, Irimi across and Tenkan again to stay on the circle and not get clocked in the head when they whip around.

Counter Shihonage to Kaitenage(check if right name).  As the lock for Shihonage is being applied, which they are sliding across your back you extend your arm forward and untwist it.  As you do this your other arm pulls their head to your locked arm shoulder and Tenkan around them. You other arm entwines with theirs to keep their arm down and connected to you while you Tenkan and then raise that arm up as they face you and drop them with Kaitenage.

GRAPPLING ON THE GROUND.  When you are knocked to the ground or trip etc. you raise your legs up a bit and lean back to keep maximum distance from the attacker.  Using your legs like hands you keep contact with heit knees or thighs as they approach you.  use this to push them away and keep contanct on their arms with yours.  This will allow you to stretch them out and apply a lock hold like Gokyu or others.

Advanced Transition Techniques

Small class today so we worked on more advanced lock transitions.

Starting from a Shoman Strike we went into a Nikyu .  As the Shoman strike comes in it is important to perform a Tenkan to keep your distance from Uke and not get bowled over by the strike.  Your arm closest to their striking arm should be used a a wedge to allow the strike to slide past you as your outer hand comes around during your Tenkan and over the top of their arm as it slides down your other arm acting as a wedge.  As it passes down your inner arm the outer arm grasps onto their striking qrist and allows it to continue in a circular motion.  As the strike comes down you continue it around feed it into your inner arms hand where you will then apply the Nikyu and place your outer arm on their elbow to keep it bent as you apply the Nikyu by bending their wrist up and over towards their center.  It's important to keep your feet at a stable position and make sure to lean into their center with your center and your bend the wrist in.

After the Nikyu we transitioned into Sankyu.  With the hand applying the Nikyu you untwist your wrist so that your thumb it pointing upwards instead of horizontally.  This will bend their so that their palm is outwards and will allow for your arm that was resting on their elbow to come under their arm and grab on for the Sankyu grip.  When transitioning from Nikyu it's important to make this fast and not allow them any time to recover and stand up against you.  When you have the grip with your other hand the initial one can press their fingers out and towards the back of their hand to raise them up so you can apply the Sankyu.

Once you have them turning from the Sankyu make sure to keep their elbow elevated so they can't reverse on you with an elbow.  You can now use your free hand that was bending the fingers to apply pressure to their ribs while you continue the lock their hand to your chest and turn into their center to apply the Sankyu.

The next transition was into a Gokyu.  Whilst turning them you take your free hand and put your hand around their elbow.  Next you just draw their arm down towards you and lock their elbow under your elbow.  As you are drawing their arm down your gripping hand slides up to their wrist and your other hand helps lock their wrist into Gokyu.

The last transition was into a toss(cant remember name).  After the Gokyu you whip their wrist out and around to your other side.  This will spin them off-balance and as they turn around to face you and are off-balanced you grab their upper arm as you step through them and toss them to their back side where they have no balance.

Worked on knee walking

Worked on blending technique, from shoman strike and making a touch from the same side arm to redirect the arm and the other to make a wedge to let it pass

Then we worked on a shoman strike to a shoulder drop.  As you let the shoman strike pass by you irimi past them and then perform a tenkan whilst pulling them down by the shoulder before they plant their foot.  The arm creating the wedge should hook onto their shoulder of the striking arm and then your outer hand hooks the other shoulder and pulls them into the hole you create as you tenkan around.

Worked on clock styled randori

More Advanced Technique

Worked on a grab to the collar, as the grab comes in you direct their hand to your hand with your same side hand and the other hand grabs two fingers as you Tenkan around and bend the fingers in to their center to push them down.  Then as they go down you draw them back up and rotate under their arm and apply Shihonage or Kotagaeshi lock to drop them....

NExt was a double slash strike from a knife holder.  After the  first strike you Irimi in and strike them to the face, capture the knife arm and tenkan around and  apply Kotagaeshi....

More on randori,...

Blending from Push and Hame Handashi

Worked on a push to the chest and blending with their movement.  While blending your arms come up between theirs and split their arms outward and bring one down to the ground while you kneel down facing the way they came from whilst bringing their hand to the mat and putting them into a roll

Hame handashi from a shoman strike while in kneeling stance.  Then as the strike comes you tenkan and put them into kotagaeshi

More On Blending

Worked on blending today,

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