Attacks in Aikido

As a rule the following blows are used in Aikido:

- Uraken (impact/blow by the back part of a fist)

- Shomen uchi - vertical top-down cutting impact/blow. This blow is made by an edge of a palm (with step, as a rule)

- Yokomen uchi; it is subdivided into two kinds of impacts/blows:

- Omote Yokomen uchi - side top-down cutting blow. This blow is made by an edge of a palm on an external trajectory...

- Ura Yokomen uchi - side top-down cutting blow; this blow is made by an edge of a palm on an internal trajectory...

- Tsuki (Tski) - Fist blow. It is subdivided into three levels:

- Tsuki jodan - impact/blow in the top level; as a rule in a head

- Tsuki chudan (Mune Tsuki, Kote Tsuki) - impact/blow in a middle level; as a rule in a stomach

- Tsuki gedan - impact/blow in the low level; as a rule in a groin.

Attacks in front and behind

There are several types of attacks:
• - blows by legs
• - blows by hands
• - holds
• - suffocating
• - holds with simultaneous impact/blow
• - holds with suffocation

There is a separate category for attacks with weapons:
• - with tanto - a knife
• - with boken - a sword
• - with jo - a stick

Basic holds in Aikido

Front holds

Ai hanmi katate dori (Kosa dori)
Gyako hanmi katate dori
Gyako katate dori
Kata dori
Ryo Kata dori
Kata dori men uchi
Hiji dori
Morote dori
Mune dori
Ryote dori
Ju Ji shime

Basic holds in Aikido

Holds from behind

Ushiro Ryote dori
Ushiro Ryo Kata dori
Ushiro Ryo Hiji dori
Ushiro katate dori kubi shime
Ushiro eri dori
Ushiro eri dori men uchi
Ushiro uvate dori
Ushiro shitate dori