Aiki goshi

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Aiki goshi ( Japanese 合 気 腰 ) is a throwing technique from the standard repertoire of Aikidō techniques and belongs to the Koshi-nage group (hip throws) and is performed as a full throw .

The aiki goshi differs from the standard koshi nage in that the entry movement is not hip but head first.

Classification

According to the classification system for Aikido techniques created by Masatomi Ikeda , Aiki-Goshi belongs to the family of techniques that belong to the Ikkyō group due to the main direction of movement . The main direction of movement is therefore determined by how an attacker was disarmed with the (Japanese) sword in the implementation of the original technique. The movement of the sword is crucial. The main direction of the Ikkyō family group is up-down .

Version with sword / bokken

Regardless of the initial or entry movement of the aikidō practitioner, when carrying out the attack with a sword or bokken, he grips it with one hand on the handle between the attacker's hands, with the other he grips the blade in such a way that he takes it sideways and not reaches over the edge.

With this grip on the weapon, the Aikidōka has a very effective lever, which decisively disrupts the attack. In this situation, the attacker cannot let go of the sword, but is forced to carry out a second follow-up attack by pulling the sword up again. Aikidōka does not oppose this movement. As a result, the attacker is again in a latently unfavorable position in which he still holds the sword, but no longer controls its movement. In this position he is again forced to make a vertical attack cut.

This movement is performed by the Aikidōka while maintaining the hand positions on the handle of the sword and on the blade laterally over his hip. The attacker is blocked by the side-frontal hip position of the aikidoka in the center of gravity on the hip and thrown by the momentum of his own cut only with little guidance from the aikidoka over his hip.

Version without sword / bokken

The technique is carried out in an analogous way without a sword or bokken: The Aikidōka motivates Uke by means of initial and entry movements that the latter sets a grip, for example by grasping one or both wrists. Instead of the sword, the aikidōka now wields his own arms in an analogous way so that the attacker is thrown over the hips while holding the arms.

References and receipts

literature

  • Christian Tissier : Aikido fundamental. Techniques et connaissances fondamentales. Budosport Verlag, Noisy-sur-École 2008, ISBN 978-2-84167-239-4 .
  • Christian Tissier: Aikido - Principes et applications. Volume 2: Projections. Self-published, s. l. 2005, DVD 55 minutes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The hard 'K' becomes the soft 'G' in pronunciation when 'Koshi' is not in the initial syllable of compound words.