This time we concentrated on ushiro ryote dori techniques. Ryoute(両手) in Japanese means both arms, so basically the attack is such that uke grabs both arms of tori, this time from behind. The beginning is from the front, like in a sword fight, facing each other. But then, tori opens and tricks uke into grabbing the hands from behind. Sounds theoretically simple, but there are lots of details too. Sincerely, the range of techniques was such that I cannot recall each and every one, but one could do kote-gaeshi, shiho-nage and irimi-nage. Cool stuff. I remember marveling at the expanse of aikido techniques because even after a full year, we are still encountering new variations on a constant basis. Like this one called juji-garame. Karamaru(絡まる) means to twine, like to twine a rope, so the technique aims at entangling the opponent’s hands and throwing him/her forward. Its tricky since (1.)it involves tori reversing the attack in order to grab uke’s hands, and at the same time one must do several turns, the ten-kan being one of them, and (2.) it is a high break-fall technique. Another one is whereby uke does shomen uchi, but tori somehow sweeps uke off the feet. I am yet to wrap my head around this one.
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