Aikido: Ju Nana Hon Kata - 10. Waki Gatame

17 Basic Techniques: 10.
Waki Gatame side of chest arm lock As tori pushes through in the balance break ukes elbow naturally rotates over and becomes exposed.
Tori continues to close the gap and draws uke out on the line square to his feet.
This secondary balance break on the perpendicular line is often neglected but allows for much greater control of uke with a minimum of force.
As the inside hand controls the wrist into the yoke of the outside elbow maintain pressure on ukes triceps just above his elbow.
Do not let this arm bar devolve into an upper body strength contest.
The lock is the by-product of the body positions not the tension of the arms and shoulder muscles. Ju Nana Hon kata comprises the seventeen basic techniques of aikido.
This is a kata of basic throws and control techniques.
Some aikido schools refer to this as randori no kata.
The Seventeen as we call it is technical heart of requirements for first degree black belt.
It allows students to build and internalize fundamental throwing and controlling principles that can then be used in randori and in the higher kata.

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