Shomen Uchi-dai Ikkyo Japanese Aikido Techniques

Video Transcript

" 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. Now we are going to cover one of the first fundamental techniques of aikido called shomen uchi-dai ikkyo, which means first technique. In this case Uke is going to take a stance and is going to attack nage. Okay, in this case, as soon as Uke picks up his hand to attack, nage, irimi enters to the front straight in. Let's show them that again, and the most important part of this movement is that you catch it really early before the arm comes down. In aikido we don't want to have a collision. "