Aikido Technique: Kosa-Dori Koshinage

Video Transcript

"Lets go back to Kosa for just a moment. We can do this from tsuki but I want to have you guys get the practice of load up. So this technique is going to be Kosa Koshinage okay nice and easy. Let's go over here. So from here kosa tori if any of you've had karate experience raise it up. Maybe do a punch okay. I like to grab his hand okay. Then I'm going to take my back leg and stick it right between his. This comes over my hip, I'm going to get down and pick him up. Okay so nice and easy up atemi, in, get down, let him go okay. Let's get that right. Okay? Enter, I want you to lower your hips, put them up against his thigh. We're going to start to do a windmill here just until he comes up okay. What we really want to do is get him right across our belt or right across the koshi ita on the comma. So enter cutting in right to the, from here you should be able to lock ground pretty much all day. Nice and easy right no big deal. Now its just a matter of turning the hips to get him back up. So from here up enter hip against his thigh and get it a little low. Then do a windmill until he comes up. Okay just hold him right there. No big deal right?"