Aikido Hartford at the
Academy of Martial Arts
1404 Tolland Turnpike
Manchester, CT 06042
860-256-5347
shimotengu@icloud.com

O Sensei
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Glossary


  • Aiki-jô - staff
  • Aiki-ken - sword
  • Arigato gozaimashita - thank you (past tense)
  • Arigato gozaimasu - thank you (present tense)
  • Ayumi-ashi irimi - striding irimi
  • Bokken - wooden sword
  • Dojo - martial art practice area
  • Funakogi undô - boat rowing exercise
  • Furutama undô - breathing exercise
  • Gokyô - fifth basic pin
  • Hanmi - basic triangular stance
  • Hanmi-handachi - attacker (uke) standing, defender (nage) sitting
  • Henka-waza - turning one technique into another
  • Happô - eight directions
  • Happô-giri - eight directional cutting
  • Happô-undô - eight directional exercise
  • Ikkyô - first basic pin
  • Ikkyô-undô - basic exercise
  • Irimi - entering principle
  • Irimi-nage - basic throw
  • - short staff
  • Jô-tori - unarmed defense against a jô
  • Kaeshi - reversal or counter
  • Kaeshi-waza - counter techniques
  • Kaiten - roll, spin
  • Kaiten-nage - basic throw
  • Kata - shoulder
  • Kata-tori - shoulder grab
  • Kata-tori men-uchi - shoulder grab and strike to head
  • Katate-tori - one-handed grab to wrist
  • Ki - universal life force
  • Kiza - mobile seated position (on your toes with knees on the ground)
  • Kôhô kaiten - backward roll
  • Kokyû - breath, breathing
  • Kokyû-hô - breathing and centering technique
  • Kokyû-nage - breath throw
  • Kote - back of the hand
  • Kote-gaeshi - basic throw
  • Koshi-nage - hip throw
  • Kubi - neck, head
  • Kubi-nage - head throw
  • Mawari - rotation, surroundings
  • Morote-tori - two-handed grab to wrist
  • Musubi - binding, continuous contact
  • Nage - defender (applies aikido technique)
  • Nikyô - second basic pin
  • Omote - front
  • Onegai shimasu - if you please
  • Randori - freestyle
  • Rei - bow
  • Ryôte-tori - grabbing both wrists
  • Sankyo - third basic pin
  • Seika-tanden - center of the body
  • Seiza - formal seated position, kneeling
  • Shihô - four directions
  • Shihô-nage - basic throw
  • Shômen-uchi - strike to front of head
  • Suwaru - to sit
  • Suwari-waza - seated techniques
  • Tachi - live sword, standing
  • Tachi-tori - defense against a sword
  • Tachi-waza - standing technique
  • Tantô - short knife
  • Tenchi-nage - standing throw
  • Tenkai - 180 degree pivot in place
  • Tenkan - 180 degree pivot with tenshin (a step back from one hanmi into its opposite), circular principle
  • Tekubi - wrist
  • Tenshin - a step back from one hanmi into its opposite
  • Tsugi-ashi irmi- sliding irmi
  • Tsuki - punch or thrust
  • Uchi - inner
  • Uke - attacker (receiver of the aikido technique)
  • Ukemi - receiving with the body
  • Ushiro - behind
  • Ushiro kubi-jime - choke hold from behind
  • Ushiro ryôkata-tori - shoulders grabbed from rear
  • Ushiro ryôte-tori - wrists grabbed from rear
  • Ushiro ryôtekubi-tori - same as ushiro ryote-tori
  • Waza - technique
  • Yoko - side
  • Yokomen - side of head
  • Yokomen-uchi - strike to side of head
  • Yonkyô - fourth basic pin
  • Zenpô-kaiten - forward roll