Why only 10 ura waza?
Mon 08:49 PST. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
Tomiki defined seventeen fundamental techniques in aikido - things that you should know how to do in order to have a basis to do good randori. There is also a set of counter-techniques for the fundamental techniques. In this set of counters, called urawaza (perhaps it should have been named kaeshiwaza?), uke begins one of the seventeen fundamental techniques, and tori turns the tide, ending in a classical counter. . But where there are seventeen fundamental techniques, there are only ten counters. What gives?
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