I thought you might be interested to see what the kenshusei training looks like. Here’s a film I took of last Wednesday’s class. It’s the last 5 minutes of the class, followed by rei (etiquette/bowing), shinkoku (ceremonial end of daily training), and soji (cleaning the dojo floors). It is all uncut and uncensored. It will give you a real feel for what training is like in the dojo.
This day was the first day of sankajo from a back attack. Sankajo is aikido’s third technique and involves locking the wrist by rotating the pinky-finger side of the hand in toward the body, like this…
At the end of the technique, you pin the attacker’s arm, like this…
Okay, let’s watch the movie!
