Uke Nagashi Tenkan: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Uke Nagashi means, motion deflect, or collapsing deflection. I learned this several years ago from a guy named Larry Renosso, the Makoto Aikdio Kiyoki. Very, very good martial arts instructor, very powerful. He does the Uke Nagashi like no one I've ever seen before. The idea of Uke Nagashi is learning to control the line, by how you deflect the person coming in. It's an arm deflection. Therefore, I'm deflecting the arm as the person comes towards me. Rather than get off line, I control the line, and make him get off my line. Slowly, if he just puts his hands out. The idea behind this, is that my hand will come up, I use the back of my forearm to touch, I don't use the edge of my forearm because I don't want to hurt that bone. From here, I bring my elbow up and change his angle of attack. If you can see here, his angle of attack is straight towards me. Boom. Let's do it this way. The angle of attack is straight towards me. Here, with Uke Nagashi I redirect him as he goes by me. There's two ways to do Uke Nagashi. One is with Tenkan, and the other is with Ittemi, here. I'm going to show Uke Nagashi Tenkan. As he comes at me, my hand comes out, I use the momentum to redirect him as I turn. Slow again, here, here, here, this is where I end up; side-by-side with him, to control his angle of attack. I've avoided the attack, now I control the situation, and I can choose my option. Continuous motion."