Featured ai hanmi katatetori - which as luck would have it is standing in the same stance to your uke (loosely opponent, literally recipient but this is the party that initiates the attack and has the aikido done to them). Most basically you stand with your left foot forward and uke does the same or vice versa. Then they grab your wrist. Then you do something about it, in most techniques tonight we were breaking the severity of the grip by moving the ukes arm to a weaker spot usually away from their centerline, often in toward their face, ultimately landing them on their face or anterior side anyway. The beauty of this particular attack is that it's slower moving than being punched but the defenses are very similar and each technique you can do from either attack. Versatility is important. Because you'll see on yesterday's posting listing what all has got to be accomplished during the test there's no ai hanmi katatetori, but there is tsuki (punch).
So there ya go, or more accurately there I go, babbling happily about Aikido.
Soon I'll scrounge up some You Tube clips to link to, it'll make more sense.
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