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Harai TSUKIDetails
Aspects and considerations already treated in a previous exercise of Aikibatto, are omitted here.
Harai, parry or warding off, is commented in the text on ATE, so is tsuki, in general terms, and chiburi kaiten.
![]() Starting position. Tori at left, uke at right. Tsuki, thrust, is the second of the two Harai, named after the tsuki done by tori in movement seven. A significant difference to the previous Harai exercise is also, that here tori does a taisabaki move to the left instead of the right.
The harai ends with a draw of the sword, tori's right hand pulling the sword horizontally to the right, left hand holding the scabbard back. It is very important not to start the draw already in the harai move, where the sword should instead be held very firmly inside the scabbard. When the draw commences, it is firstly done by the left hand thumb pushing the tsuba, sword guard, so that the blade starts to slide out - and the rest of the draw is done by the right hand.
Pushing uke, in the continued tsuki movement, is done to help get the sword back - which would take some effort, were the thrust an actual one with a real blade through uke's body. Directly after the push, tori pulls the sword back, to a horizontal position near the body, much like that of movement five - but this time, there is no contact between the blade and the body, nor is the right hand as far back as in movement five.
In iai style single training of the tori movements in this exercise, the modifications of the above would be only one: a correct direction for the chudan tsuki of movement seven - right at where the uke would be. Uke's movements in this exercise are not very meaningful to practice in a iai solo style.
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I'm a Swedish author and aikido instructor, 6 dan Aikikai Shihan, former Vice Chairman of the International Aikido Federation. I've practiced aikido for 40 years. I also teach the sword art iaido. In addition to fiction, I've written books about aikido and other Eastern traditions. Google Profile More about me here. ![]() Feed from my Blog:
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