Josh Gold“A light twist of the head from the right position will bring your opponent down in a flash!”
Sometimes we make throws in aikido much more difficult than they should be. If practitioners take the trouble to position themselves in uke’s blind-spot, for example to perform iriminage, a simple twist of the head will take your opponent down with almost no physical effort as shown in the photo sequence below.
To see other examples of approaches to balance-breaking, have a look at this beautifully edited video that contains highlights from a seminar I gave in April 2015 in Santiago, Chile.
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Antonio Aloia
One of my thoughts about aikido techniqes is they are compound, each being a combination of many. Ikkyo can end in a pin, or be a throw, or simply a couple atemi. From that I propose that each technique is an answer to a fairly obscure “what if” question. You know about those, “Sensei, what if he does..?” The more obscure the question, the more rare the technique in practice and even “real life”. One time I’ve had ganseki otoshi come out in a dojo setting. It was supposed to be a kochinage but uke moved strangely and guess what. So far “in real life” I haven’t gotten past the blend, and that’s been pretty rare, too.