Aikido: Ikkyo - sitting, standing, empty-hand, and wakizashi short sword

Do you ever use wakizashi or other shoto in your study of Ikkyo? I sometimes like to study Ikkyo by comparing sitting, standing, empty-hand, and wakizashi.

Using Wakizashi is super interesting and helps keep you from pushing on your partner.

Here's a video with a couple clips from a recent class of mine. The theme for the class was Ikkyo from suwari waza, tachi waza, and then tachi waza with shoto.

Let me know in the comments section if you sometimes use wakizashi in your training.