What are the 16 forms of attack in Aikido?

Question

I am learning aikido and I just can't remember the forms or even what they are called although I do know 1st and 2ed forms it's just the rest, I hope to do for my green belt grading soon.

Answer 1

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    Front-of-the-head strike ( shōmen'uchi) a vertical knifehand strike to the head.

Side-of-the-head strike ( yokomen'uchi) a diagonal knifehand strike to the side of the head or neck.

Chest thrust (mune-tsuki) a punch to the torso. Specific targets include the chest, abdomen, and solar plexus. Same as "middle-level thrust" ( chūdan-tsuki), and "direct thrust" (choku-tsuki).

Face thrust (ganmen-tsuki) a punch to the face. Same as "upper-level thrust" (jōdan-tsuki).

Beginners in particular often practice techniques from grabs, both because they are safer and because it is easier to feel the energy and lines of force of a hold than a strike. Some grabs are historically derived from being held while trying to draw a weapon; a technique could then be used to free oneself and immobilize or strike the attacker who is grabbing the defender. The following are examples of some basic grabs:

Single-hand grab (katate-dori) one hand grabs one wrist.

Both-hands grab (morote-dori) both hands grab one wrist.

Both-hands grab (ryōte-dori) both hands grab both wrists. Same as "double single-handed grab" (ryōkatate-dori).

Shoulder grab (kata-dori) a shoulder grab. "Both-shoulders-grab" is ryōkata-dori (ryōkata-dori)

Chest grab (mune-dori) grabbing the (clothing of the) chest. Same as "collar grab" (eri-dori.

First technique (ikkyō) a control using one hand on the elbow and one hand near the wrist which leverages uke to the ground. This grip also applies pressure into the ulnar nerve at the wrist.

Second technique (nikyō) an adductive wristlock that torques the arm and applies painful nerve pressure.

Third technique (sankyō) a pronating wristlock that directs upward-spiraling tension throughout the arm, elbow and shoulder.

Fourth technique (yonkyō) a shoulder control similar to ikkyō, but with both hands gripping the forearm. The knuckles (from the palm side) are applied to the recipient's radial nerve against the periosteum of the forearm bone.

Fifth technique (gokyō?) visually similar to ikkyō, but with an inverted grip of the wrist, medial rotation of the arm and shoulder, and downward pressure on the elbow. Common in knife and other weapon take-aways.

Four-direction throw (shihōnage) The hand is folded back past the shoulder, locking the shoulder joint.

Forearm return (kotegaeshi) a supinating wristlock-throw that stretches the extensor digitorum.

Breath throw (kokyūnage) a loosely used term for various types of mechanically unrelated techniques.

Entering throw (iriminage) throws in which nage moves through the space occupied by uke. The classic form superficially resembles a "clothesline" technique.

Heaven-and-earth throw (tenchinage) beginning with ryōte-dori; moving forward, nage sweeps one hand low ("earth") and the other high ("heaven"), which unbalances uke so that he or she easily topples over.

Hip throw (koshinage) aikido's version of the hip throw. Nage drops his or her hips lower than those of uke, then flips uke over the resultant fulcrum.

Figure-ten throw (jūjinage) or figure-ten entanglement (jūjigarami?) a throw that locks the arms against each other (The kanji for "10" is a cross-shape: ).

Rotary throw (kaitennage) nage sweeps the arm back until it locks the shoulder joint, then uses forward pressure to throw.......................

Answer 2

Your question is not very clear. However, I will try to answer it.

Taking in consideration what you wrote, I guess you are talking about ikkyo (1st), nikkyo (2nd), sankyo( 3rd), yonkyo (4th), and gokyo (5th).

The basic one is ikkyo (1st form). It can be done in any kind of attack (katatetori, shomen-uchi, yokomen-uchi, ryotetori, ushiro tori etc). This is the basic form to learn the rest, because nikkyo, sankyo, yonkyo and gokyo are variations of ikkyo. So, my suggestion is that you train ikkyo and get good at it. The variations comes in the type of locks.

Each dojo has a different grading system. You'd rather ask your sensei for help on the requirements of your dojo.

Good luck !

There are some information of Aikido in this site. Soon, I will be posting videos. It is in Portuguese, but Google can translate it.

http://www.institutouniao.com.br/aikido/

Answer 3

I didn't know there were as many as 16 forms of attack in aikido.  did you mean throws?  Like irimi nage, etc...the only attack I learned in aikido is choku-tsuki