UOur topics today:
Beginners' Course, part 2
- Rolling backwards, partner exercises
- "Heaven-and-Earth throw" (TENCHI-NAGE): attacker grabs both wrists (RYOTE-DORI) > step out and stretch lower hand towards knee & enter and stretch upper hand towards sky > attacker takes backwards roll
- RYOTE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE: extend two-handed attack by kneeling down and "taking off invisible coat"
Aikido Advanced
- RYOTE-DORI KOKYU-NAGE, variation with IRIMI-KAITEN entry (simultaneously move arms like UCHI-KAITEN "to the wrong side", free lower hand) and throw via TENKAN-IRIMI (sword cut movement), execution needs permanent body contact
- RYOTE-DORI SHIHO-NAGE, focus on extension and spiral movement (always forwards)
- Differences of execution in OMOTE, URA and on the line
