This month Yamashima sensei is coming to West Europe again so I thought it would be nice to study a Youtube video which demonstrates a lot of usefull principles.
The video was shot at a seminar in Germany in 2014.
What are the principles at work?
- At 0:40. Yamashima sensei touches his belt with his free hand to show the use of hara. He uses his hip joint of the back foot. This is similar to the movement of a sword strike where both hip joints are used at the moment of the cut to maximize power. He is also heard to use a short burst of kokyu power.
- At 1:42. Use of whole body power istead of only hand and arm movement.
- At 3:02. "I turn my center". The arm stays in a relaxed but slightly extended state. Similar to the "unbendable arm" excercise.
- At 3:14. Use of whole body power and mainly by usage of "koshi" or hip joints.
- At 4:52. Turn shoulder and hand to connect to hip joints.
- At 5:12. Demonstration of opening and closing movements.
- At 5:54. Connect hip joint to shoulder in hanmi handachi waza.
- At 6:34. Soft connection excercise using palm to palm feeling or "barbarella lead".
- At 8:20 and 8:54. Barely visible. Attacking of center with second hip joint and hand from underneath hara of partner.
- At 9:03. "Figure out how to bring in koshi".
- At 9:53. Yamashima sensei closes the distance between his hara and his partner so technique is more powerful.
- At 10:42. "Enter and attack"
- At 11:00. Once again both hara almost touch due to the movement of Yamashima sensei.
- At 14:04. Correct use of arm in Aikido showed through shomen uchi strike. Whole body strike with minimum folding at the elbow joint.
So use hips, not hands seems to be the leading subject in this clip.
Enjoy practice.
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