Our topics today:

• Beginners' Course, part 3 of 4

  • Swordwork basics (AIKIKEN)
  • SHOMEN-UCHI
  • 2 counter against SHOMEN-UCHI: direct block at wrist & stepping aside and cutting into the crook of the elbow

  Aikido

  • SHOMEN-UCHI KOKYU-NAGE, SUMI-OTOSHI variant
  • SHOMEN-UCHI KOKYU-NAGE, kneeling down in front of UKE
  • SHOMEN-UCHI, extending the strike by stepping to the outside, with and without SHOTO
  • SHOMEN-UCHI IKKYO in OMOTE with this entry