Tegatana Tenkan

Video Transcript

"Again, I picked this up from Larry Renosso, the Makoto Aikido Kiyoki. He doesn't necessarily call it this, I call it this to remind myself, it's called Tekatana Tankan. Tekatana is te, katana, te is hand, katana of course is blade. So tekatana is hand blade. With the tenkan, it's telling me to cut the arm out of the way as I turn. Where Uke Nagashi was a deflecting motion, here, Tekatana is a cutting motion here. Real slow, just put your hands out. I will cut from here, cut the person, and let them go passed me this way. Tenkan, is as I cut, I turn with it. Notice that I always keep this other hand up, I just don't want to do this in case something goes wrong, he stops in the middle of his attack and punches me in the face. I don't like to be punched in the face, I'm way to pretty for that. So I come around here, just like this. Plus, as you can see, it goes by slowly, it gives me a great opportunity to strike with an Itemi right there. Faster."