Grabs and Strikes

The venerable Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere (ADS) by Westbrook and Ratti, is almost The Standard Aikido Textbook. Its numbering system for attacks and techniques is a neat solution to the problem of different terminology between styles. However, it can be difficult to decipher, especially for beginners.

The following excerpt presents the first two standard attacks from the chart on page 152. It is organized by attack and defense ("Immobilization” or “Projection”) and referenced to the ADS page number on which the combination appears.

Practice attacks by moving into the set-ups for different energy and options which underlie different techniques.