Aikido: Iriminage - Keeping a flexible mind and spontaneity by reversing the turn.

Is it sometimes hard for you or your students to improvise and be spontaneous in your Aikido training? Do you or your students sometimes get stuck in a routine?

In today’s video, I’m going to share a clip from a seminar I did back in 2018 with some of my sempai from Japan.

I enter as if I’m going to do Iriminage, but then I turn the opposite way that I would to do Iriminage. I just find it to be a really fun technique. And it helps my students keep a flexible and open mind.

Let’s check it out.