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Ben Sensei has inspired us to experiment with throwing Uke from recognizable waza such as ikkyo, nikyo and sankyo. Here is an example from ikkyo. Note that it is not as simple as pushing Uke. When I first tried to do ikkyo-nage, I simply caused Ben Sensei to take a step forward (he was my Uke for the demo). Later, after much humility, he explained that we need to make use of the funakogi-undo we practice. It is not a simple push, but more of a circular movement which gets Uke to roll.