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Tenchi Nage (heaven and earth throw) is one of the canonical aikido throws — a bidirectional throw in which one of the opponent's hands is driven up (heaven, ten 天) while the other is driven down (ear...
Aiki Nage is the Family-level grouping of the canonical aikido throws — the throws that most explicitly demonstrate the aiki principle of blending with and redirecting the opponent's energy. [1,2] The...
Kaiten Nage (rotary throw) is one of the canonical aikido throws — a spiral throw in which the aikidoka guides the opponent's head down toward the ground while the opponent's arm is extended overhead,...
Kokyu Nage (literally 'breath throw') is the most fundamental and widely-practiced throw in aikido — a category of throws unified by the principle of using kokyū (the Japanese concept of unified breat...
Tenbin Nage (literally 'scale-beam throw') is an aikido throw that off-balances the opponent by hyperextending their elbow joint while levering against the shoulder, treating the opponent's straighten...
Juji Nage (literally 'cross throw' or 'X throw', from juji 十字 — the kanji shape of the cross) is an aikido throw in which the aikidoka crosses the opponent's arms over each other and then off-balances...
Koshi Nage is the aikido hip throw — distinct from judo's koshi-waza in that the entire body, not just the hip, serves as the throwing axis. [1,2] In aikido koshi-nage, the thrower turns deeply under ...
The Aikido Throw group covers the throwing techniques of aikido — the modern Japanese martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969) that emphasises blending with and redirecting an opponent's ene...