Can Aikido Breakfast Really Protect You?

Aikido breakfasts are to break the force of a fall to the ground without suffering an injury. On the other hand, ukemi is the ability to receive a technique or fall safely and regain balance.

Learning how to develop good Aikido breakfasts is very difficult to achieve. Many Aikido students do not focus on the ability to receive techniques, as their main goal is to become a good performer of the technique.

One of the reasons is that people in the West are generally very competitive. Most of us have been taught to put ourselves first, and that winning is better than losing. This means that we tend to focus more on performing techniques and winning, rather than receiving and losing.

This way of thinking is quite selfish and selfish, and the art of Aikido addresses this problem directly. To take, we must first give. So by focusing a little more on helping our sparring partner, in turn, we will be helping ourselves.

In my many trips to the Aikido dojo, I have met hundreds of students who are quite good at performing techniques. But, most dojos only have a couple of good uke, which are good enough to use in demonstrations. This is because the goal of most students is to win and perform well.

You can be different and truly excel in the art by closely observing Aikido breakfasts and ukemi practice.

By working a little harder on your falls, you can develop to a much higher level. It will give you the confidence to be useful to your training partner by not resisting his techniques. This helps your skills and hers, a win-win situation, eliminating the conflict of connection.

I will briefly look at some of the Aikido breakfasts that you will learn during your Aikido training …

Back Breakfasts

These are first learned by lying on your back on the mat. Bend your knees so that your heels are flat on the floor, with your arms palms down 45 degrees from your body. Raise your head, with your chin touching your chest. This strengthens your neck muscles and protects your head from hitting the ground if you fall.

Then, raise your arms and hit the ground with your fingers, palms, and forearms, all sharing the impact. Repeat several times and exhale each time you hit. When you can do these back slaps comfortably from lying down, continue with …

Starting from a  Sitting up, step back, making sure your chin is tucked in, and exhale forcefully. Hit the ground and repeat several times. Then try from a squat position with your glutes resting on your heels. Tuck in your chin and bend your spine, and allow your body to roll back so your back touches the floor. You must force your breath sharply and hit the mat just when you touch it, repeat several times.

Practice this until you can do it without shaking your body, without feeling shocked. You can eventually try it from a standing position. Stand up straight, bend your knees and lower your glutes close to the floor, and place one foot slightly behind the other. Roll onto your back and continue as before.

Secondary breakfasts

You should already be able to perform backward falls before attempting to learn lateral falls, which are just one-arm, one-sided breakfasts. For example, you would fall onto your side if the person throwing you is still hanging from one of your arms.

Remember, your arm should be about 45 degrees from your body when you hit the mat. Immediately after, you should withdraw your arm to protect your chest or face to block a punch or kick.

Practice dropping your legs to the sides and hit the floor with the arm closest to the palm of the mat down at 45 degrees. The hip, knee, and the entire side of the leg and calf should be flat on the mat. The other leg should be bent at the knee, with the foot resting on the ground.

Go ahead breakfasts

Forward Rolls are very important because they help you get to your feet immediately, so you can continue to defend yourself. Before attempting rolling falls, you should already know the backs and sides.

Rolling breakfasts are awesome to watch, especially during a demo. But they take a lot of practice. When your body falls at high speed, you must protect your head and neck, and spread the impact to protect your arms and legs.

He accomplishes this by making his body form a circle, where his body rolls. Energy is absorbed along the edge of the circle and nothing is damaged. Practice on tatami mats, gym mats, or wrestling mats.

Think of your shoulders, arms, and hands as a hoop or a circle. Roll along the extended hand and arm, shoulder, mid-back, spine, buttocks, legs, and feet. You must train your body to touch the ground along this path each time you roll over.

High breakfasts

Kote-gaeshi Aikido breakfasts are the way to escape a very unpleasant arm break in Aikido or Ju Jitsu. If you don’t know how to jump on your own arm quickly and land with a good side drop, your arm can break when someone hits you with a full power kotegaeshi throw.

The kote-gaeshi drop is not for Aikido beginners, and you need to develop your ukemi skills before even trying this. You would begin to learn slowly and carefully by practicing with a partner in the dojo.

Once you get used to timing the breakout dip to someone else’s actions, you can practice increasing the power of the move until they really throw you into the breakout dip.

As you meet the mat, try to distribute as much force throughout your body as possible in the most relaxed manner. It takes a lot of practice to achieve the correct timing and allow your body to distribute force.

Always practice safely with a qualified instructor in a training room and using safety mats!

Tony wilden
Aikido Health Center

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