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.