Aikido: 6th Kyu / Rokkyu – Grading Syllabus

Requirements: minimum 20 practice days

Basics

Tai sabaki (body movement)

Tai sabaki (体捌き) is a term used in Japanese martial arts for body movement or body management. It generally refers to repositioning the body in response to an attack, often by moving away from the line of attack while maintaining a position from which a technique can be applied.

• Kaiten (180° pivot)​

• Tai no henka

Dinner plates. Tai No Henko is done by stepping forward and then doing tenkan on that foot, at the end of the tenkan turn extend your hands forward with palms facing up.

• Irimi tenkan

Meaning: Entering or putting in the body.

Irimi (ee-ree-mee) is the second pillar of Aikido (Aikido techniques are structured around six main pillars).[3] Irimi involves entering deeply around or behind an attack to defuse or neutralize the attack. The concept of irimi teaches one to blend with or enter into an opponent’s attack to become one with the opponent’s movement and leaving the opponent with nowhere to strike. This movement is utilized during the moment of the opponent’s attack. To complete the movement, one moves out of the opponent’s line of attack to the opponent’s shikaku, or blind spot. When executed properly, one can strike an opponent with great force, combining his attacking momentum and one’s forward movement.

Another example.

Ukemi

• Ushiro ukemi​

• Mae ukemi

Tachi waza (standing techniques)

Ai hanmi katate dori

• Ikkyo​

• Shiho nage

• Kote gaeshi

Gyaku hanmi katate dori

• Sokumen irimi nage (kokyu ho)

Shomen uchi​​

• Irimi nage