Iriminage: The Final Throw of the Shihans
Mar 28
2010
2010
How do the shihans throw?
I present stills of eight shihans as well as O-Sensei as they are about to do the final throw in iriminage. I am most interested in what their control hand is doing at the moment of throwing, and not so much interested in the throwing arm itself.
Mukai Sensei1

Mukai Sensei
Nishio Sensei2

Nishio Sensei about to throw

... and Uke goes straight down
Yoshi Ichida3

Yoshi Ichida

Uke is about to go straight down
Yamada Sensei4

Yamada Sensei

Uke is about to go down
Christian Tissier5

Christian Tissier from behind

Uke is about to go down
Now for something different…
Endo Sensei6 shows a different example

Endo Sensei's collar grab

Collar grab again

About to throw

Collar again
Saito Sensei

Saito Sensei

Saito Sensei throwing
Saito Wakasensei (Saito Hitohiro), son of Saito Morihiro Sensei, does the technique like his father in Iwama-Ryu7

Saito Hitohiro
Morihei Ueshiba8

Rear collar grab

Rear collar grab
- From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEo0wtZgYgQ [↩]
- From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt4ts-rOpyM [↩]
- From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475V1JcAFcM [↩]
- From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6AmvftaYw0 [↩]
- From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3NmaYu2Kvc [↩]
- From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFEwtTp9gxw [↩]
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKvSAeINPZI [↩]
- From http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/2009/04/17/iriminage-according-to-o-sensei/ [↩]
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