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Summary: Learn how to do the Tenkan Japanese aikido move in this free martial arts training and instruction video for beginners.
Ralph Reyes is an Aikido instructor at Chi Martial Arts in Miami Shores, FL. He holds a 3rd degree black belt in Aikido and is part of the Misasagi Kai Federation. He has been...read more
" On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Ralph Reyes I'm the Dojo-cho and the aikido instructor at Chi Martial Arts in Miami Shores, Florida. Today we are going to learn beginner's techniques in aikido. Okay now we are going to cover tenkan, which is the entering from behind. And the way that we are going to do that, they are going to line up with the right or left foot forward; in this case we are using the right. There is a slight moving forward and the left leg comes around. Okay try again. We are in what we call a right hanmi, in other words we are doing a right stance, we are going to step slightly forward and the left foot comes around. Okay in real time this will look like this. "
eHow Article: Tenkan Japanese Aikido Techniques