Dragan Matavulj, Srđan Milosavljević, Predrag Lazarević, Nenad Trunić

Transversal research was carried out on a sample of real aikido practitioners made up of males aged from 30 ( 5 years) who train three times a week. During the selection of the respondents, the criterion, along with the age structure and gender, was also the degree of knowledge of the technique of real aikido, and thus participating in the research were the respondents who have been training real aikido at least three, and at most four years. The aim of the research was to establish the significance of retreating from the line of attack as a relevant prerequisite for a successful defense. The aim of the research was the skill of real aikido which consists of a combination of individual techniques. The respondents in pairs via an arranged sparring carried out the technique of “downwards hand” blocks as a response to the “direct” foot strike and the “inner upper arm outwards” block as a response to the “fist straight ahead” strike along with a simultaneous retreating from the line of attack by a “side movement” technique. In the following variant, the respondents who defended themselves from an identical strike used the previously mentioned blocks which they did not carry out in combination with movement but rather, remained in the line of attack. The obtained results confirm the presumption that the number of successfully realized blocking techniques which precede the realization of the latter individual techniques in real aikido (most often, levers) will depend on the fact whether the defender has retreated from the line of attack using the movement technique.

Keywords: line of attack, strike, movement, block, real aikido

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