The Martial Artists' Training Log

[bushido_man96]

8/20/2025

Aikido:  6:15 - 7:45 pm.  Warm-ups and aikitaisos, brief internals work, and then right into technique work.  We did lots of defenses against the lunge punch, or stepping straight punch:

Kokyonage "buddy drop":  After taisabaki outside the punch, getting deep (and not focusing on blocking the hand so much), monkey grip to the inside shoulder, tying the elbow to the hip and using the "rowing motion" from aikitaisos (funakogi undo) to break the posture, step across behind them and finish on the other shoulder (but really happens at the same time).  I have to keep the rowing close to me, and not out and away from me.  Variations including grabbing the collar at the back of the neck instead of hooking the shoulder to break balance and apply pressure into the hips through the small of the back.

Kotegashi:  From the same punch attack.  After the taisabaki and "block," a tenkan motion sets up the kotegashi.

Jujunage:  The attack was a same side lapel grab followed by a face punch.  Taisabaki outside the punching arm and pass deep at the shoulder.  Then the other hand seizes that punching arm and the other uses the arm grabbing the lapel as a lever into the other arm, as an armbar.  It's a "crossed arms" throw.  Again, step deep and don't think of the hand so much.

Last up was "free work," and I chose to work shomenuchi ikkyo omote and ura, both of which are a technique for my rank.