Ukemi

The art of being uke, who tossed, thrown or locked, called ukemi. Ukemi is the true way of falls thus reducing the risk of injuries from falls. If uke does not understand how to drain the fall when applying a technique nage, uke can most likely get a serious injury. How to fall in aikido is divided into three, namely falling forward (mae ukemi), falling to the rear (ushiro ukemi) and fell to the side (Yoko ukemi). The way this fall aims: 1) for safety, 2) to feel how a person who fell was thrown, 3) train aikido practitioners reflexively falling body, which in real combat the risk of falling is not inevitable, 4) provide ideal conditions for the nage. Nage no need to worry about injury risk in executing the technique uke to uke aikido, ukemi because uke has good ability. If worry over the safety uke nage ukemi bad result, applications nage techniques will not run perfectly. Good Ukemi will give a real fight situation.

Good Ukemi be thoroughly tested in the dojo when the practitioners practicing free technique (Jiyu waza), where free attacking uke nage nage technique with any and neutralization techniques may use any attacks that he wanted to. In this condition the direction of fall-uke is not unexpected, because he did not know when nage throw or slam. Uke completely relies on instinct and intuition to fall safely.