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- From: schan@birch.srg.af.mil (Stephen Chan x4485)
- Subject: Re: Kotegaeshi (wrist/forearm technique)
- Organization: SRG, Arinc Research Corp., Annapolis, MD
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:43:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.144332.4766@srg.srg.af.mil>
- References: <1hpqd6INNon2@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1992Dec29.152254.3652@crash>
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- In article <1992Dec29.152254.3652@crash> jfrost@crash.cts.com (Julian Frost) writes:
- >Kote Gaeshi should involve twisting the hand towards the elbow of the
- >attacker, while turning your own body out of the line of attack. The
- >combination of your movement, his movement and the fact that you are
- >extending his wrist in a direction that it *normally* bends, causes
- >your partner (attacker) to loose his balance and be thrown. Julian
-
- I've had a nasty kote-gaeshi variant practiced on me by seniors which
- involved bending the wrist enough for leverage, and then rotating it along the
- axis of the forearm (as well as some wrist bending). It was significantly more
- persuasive.
- It was considered a kote-gaeshi. It seems to me that the seniors, after
- years of practice, had an intuitive feel for how to convert the nice, canonical
- Aikido technique into a a more vicious variant.
- --
- Stephen Chan
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