Aikido Double Wrist Grabs: Sayu - Kubishime

Video Transcript

"This next technique is one of my favorites, it's a very good controlling technique. It's done best in a small environment, close-quarter battle. It's a little fancy for, I'd say, law enforcement, but I still like to use this technique. I use it in Rondori a lot. Where Kaitenage is very painful because of the Yonkyo, this is more painful due to a neck crank. So we get into this like we're going to do in Sayunage, like you've seen before. So the Sayunage technique we did was up, down. Instead of projecting him, for whatever reason now I don't have the space, or I need to control him. This hand comes up, and it turns over, cuts down, and wraps up the neck. It looks worse than it actually is. It is bad, but actually looks worse than it actually feels. I mean, not that it's a pleasant technique. But what I like to get, is this motion here. Very important. When I first started doing this technique, I would come here and my posture would be bent. Your posture should be straight up and down. Their posture should be bent, just like this. Now, view from the back, rotate. Right here, I grab my own hand and lift up, and that's what makes them tap. When I want to drop them in a street fight, or in a realistic situation, I would drop an elbow to the sternum. But to be nice to each other, nice if you call this technique nice, I just drop him, just like this. So a little faster, it looks like this. One more time. Up, control the neck, cut him down. Very good technique in Rondori."