ikyo to rokyo are pinning technques. Then you have kote gaeshi. The rest are control techniques.
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ikyo to rokyo are pinning technques. Then you have kote gaeshi. The rest are control techniques.
We always stress the multi-attacker side of Aikido - as we regularly train with 1, 2 and 3 attacker randori. For anything more than 1 attacker, katame waza is never used. In fact, a basic lesson of 3 attacker randori is that even nage waza is very often problematic for the defender, with simple evasions being the preferred manner of dealing that many attackers.
To that end, katame waza become a kind of baseline. I like to think that the statement that Aikido is making is: "Yes we can still pin a single attacker - but that is child's play. What do you think of this?"
To that end we do study the all of the katame waza from the previous list, with the following added:
Arm bar (rokyo)
3 palms (making a throw and a pin directly from the 3 palms pin structure)
Figure 4 (ala professional wrestling)