Today I went to see my first Aikido teacher, Dzung Ngyuen, and we worked on some good techniques.

One of them was shomenuchi nikyo omote. It starts off as a standard shomenunchi nikyo up until the uke is lowered and his elbow is lower than his hand. From here it is followed by a little hara thrust as if to go into sankyo, except the te-no-ko is brought to my closest shoulder and a nikyo interlude is performed exactly like the ura interlude, then it continues as regular omote.

I had never seen this before. Previously I had only seen this interlude done for ura.

Update: 2010.12.01 – This is the way Canada’s CAF as well as how Saito Sensei executes nikyo omote, and it makes great sense to apply nikyo in a technique called nikyo.