Chapter II - #6 - Yonkajo 四ケ条
Yonkajo is the family that includes all techniques that act simultaneously on both the elbow and shoulder joints. Two movements form the core of this technique: yonkyo and tenchi nage.
Philippe Voarino studied at the dojo of the Founder of Aikido, in Iwama. Master Saito passed on his method to him, encouraging him to discover, beyond this teaching tool, the true art of O Sensei.
Yonkajo is the family that includes all techniques that act simultaneously on both the elbow and shoulder joints. Two movements form the core of this technique: yonkyo and tenchi nage.
The kajos are laws defining the links that bind the Aikido techniques together. These laws relate to the locking of the joints of the human arm.
In order to throw uchi tachi, uke tachi must first make him lighter, make him float on his supports.
一法ヲ應用ス ‘Apply the first Law’. For O Sensei, gokyo was not the fifth immobilisation, it was the First Law....
O Sensei's intention to reveal the ability of reason to apprehend the mechanisms of the way was not identified in the English translation, which abusively converted a precise meaning into a general idea.
"From triangle - Reverse - Rise towards sky - With four right angles - Descend from sky to earth."