Saturday, February 27, 2016

Bye Bye, Structure

This next video deals with several ways of breaking your attacker's structure. This is key. Pay attention!

It is important that you screw up your opponent's structure. Once you achieve this and can maintain it, your opponent cannot counter and cannot resist. At this point you simply drop your center and they will fall. There are other neat method which we'll show later, but this is a good start.

The four ways shown here:

1. Twisted Uke
    Twist Uke's body around until you feel the structure break.

2. Hand Rotations
    It could be argued that this is a variations of Twisted Uke, and that is correct. Just another way of doing it using familiar Aikido hand movements.

3. Brush the Leg
    No, not with a hairbrush! That is kinky and belongs on a different blog altogether. This NOT a trip and NOT a foot sweep.

4. Bouncing
    Very light. Very soft.

Enjoy!




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