Aikido Weapons: Tantodori Knife Disarming With Pressure on Elbow

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"Konichiwa . Next, we're going to move to Tantodori, or knife take aways, similar to the sword. You can do Shomen, or straight over head attack, you can do Yokumen, kind of an angular attack, or offense key. We're going to focus mostly on Ski with the knife. It's very quick, it's very assertive, and it's quite effective. So, we're going to start with Hiji Shige, which is pressure on the elbow. Okay? Everybody I know, you like this once. Konichiwa. So, Daniel's going to come, and he's going to try to, essentially stab me right in gut. As he does that, I want to get off the line of attack, and I want to get in. Okay? From here, I'm going to stretch his arm out, let it go where it was going to go anyways. We're going to stretch it this way. As it does, I want to turn the palm up, and get the wrist above the shoulder. I'm going to take my arm and keep this in semi-tight, we don't want to crush him, but we want to keep it in. We're going to bring the wrist up, and you see what happens to him? He goes down. From there, I keep this foot, the inside foot planted, and I'm going to take the back foot, and gently, slowly start to turn. Okay? As you can see, he moves. He may tap if it's tender. From, from that position we can do a lot of different things. We could take the knife away here, just by putting Nikyo on, and taking it away. Or, once we get this position, we can stretch him out, and go into Gokyo, bringing this here to take the knife. Okay. So, Hiji Shige. We're going to scoot on the outside, if possible. Once we get here, we extend, bring the wrist up, get him down. We want to grip just like Nikyo, so we're gripping the pinky, and really making sure we got control of the thumb. This isn't tight. Inside foot right underneath the shoulder stays in place, we gently get this in tight. Then, scoot the body in. Okay? From there, let's just go to a tap. So, if you feel some pressure, he'll tap, he'll stop. Let's just give it to him from there, work on pinning a little bit. Okay. It's alright. Okay? If, for some reason, you get stuck on the inside, that's fine. He attacks, I can't get out here. That's okay. We go here. We put our hand up to kind of practice the Itemi, slide this down, then go all the way over, palm is up, wrist is above the shoulder, keep this in tight, gently rotate. Okay? Again, on the inside, get the Itemi, go to here, enter, bring this all the way, get this in taut, rotate. Okay?"