Thursday, August 9, 2012

Reach Out and Touch Them


Once upon a time I had a beginner with considerable previous training, lets refer to him a MF. After this class he was impressing/frightening the other beginners with a series of jumping spinning crescent kicks. I approached them and told them I had already showed them how to deal with this attack though they didn’t remember it,and asked MF to attack me. He did using his jumping spinning crescent kick where I stepped forward and reached out and touched him. He flew back 20 feet landing in to the wall.



I just flowed a stroke forward and his throat impaled itself onto my fingers. He threw himself away to prevent his own injury.  It is important not to thrust into the neck.



I first saw the technique at Sutrisno Sensei’s in several variations back in 1980. Since then I discovered it‘s power. The key is to flow the stroke into the neck. The karate variation to thrust into the neck has a very different potential.



The following example of the technique comes from Shioda Gozo’s ‘Total Aikido The Master Course’ demonstrating Shuchu-Ryoku Focused Power.



2 comments:

JoRoman said...

This works very well against larger opponents who count on their size and strength to drive forward into someone smaller. Used it once against a corrections officer in class, 6'3" and 300 lbs beast just impaled himself into my nihon nukite right into the hollow of the throat, off his feet and down with no effort on my part other than keep unbendable arm. Very effective and almost impossible to see if done right, person feels the fingers on the throat and loses all structure.

Victor Smith said...

Of course there is a bit more involved. You need to understand the flaw behind most jump spinning crescent kick attacks. That technique most often offers a flaw in such an attack. The use of that kick is to try and have you back away from the kicker, into the range of their spinning crescent kick.

Instead of backing up you enter into their attack by moving forward, then when you fingertip flow strike moves out, their turning neck impales itself on your fingers. Then the pain or more correctly the neck fearing the pain that will follow causes them to throw themselves back violently.

That is why you do not need a forward nukite thrust. It would be overkill.

Of course there are those spinning jumping back kicks that do not move forward, requiring a different response.