A WMA manual with groundfighting

[AikiZenDragon]

I LOVE that takedown (I thought I'd made it up - never seen it elsewhere!)!!!

Do you have a name for it?

do you really think this will work???

[meng_mao]

do you really think this will work???

Do you think all manner of standing wrist locks will work?

[AikiZenDragon]

my question was do you really think the throw illustrated in Anna's #6 post will work???

[meng_mao]

my question was do you really think the throw illustrated in Anna's #6 post will work???

the rhetoric in my reply was that yes, that move would work way better than the stuff in aikido.

[Anna Kovacs]

Yes it does, i know it works because i have done it on several occasions.

[Torakaka]

my question was do you really think the throw illustrated in Anna's #6 post will work???

uhh... yes it will and it has

[Anna Kovacs]

uhh... yes it will and it has

She knows because she saw me totally slam a guy with it ;)

[AikiZenDragon]

cool... i'm glad to hear that your aikido works so well... to answer that other guy we call it aiki otoshi... or aiki drop...

[meng_mao]

Hey you learn something every day:

So the question is, does your aikido work for you?

[AikiZenDragon]

yes it works great

heres a series of pics of the throw
http://www.aikido.waw.pl/pol/technik...i_technika.htm

[meng_mao]

yes it works great

heres a series of pics of the throw
http://www.aikido.waw.pl/pol/technik...i_technika.htm

Omar, if you're reading this, would that duck under the strike be a good opening to do an elbow strike? It just seems like the posture you end up in could be used to do that, a horse stance with forward leg penetrating their stance.

[I aint punchy!?]

Actually that throw is shown by Bas Rutten in his Self Defense video as a way out of a head-lock.

[AikiZenDragon]

i like an elbow strike to the ribs or solar plexus when i enter for this throw, and the cheap shot Anna was talking about in an earlier post to... follow him right down into side control...keep wailing and apply a submission...

[meng_mao]

i like an elbow strike to the ribs or solar plexus when i enter for this throw, and the cheap shot Anna was talking about in an earlier post to... follow him right down into side control...keep wailing and apply a submission...

...I think we may being going too far OT for this forum now.

[AikiZenDragon]

i just want to express how aikido is effective if you see beyond the aikidance that too many people equate with aikido... there is really nothing new in any martial art... the human body and physics are pretty much all there is to it...