With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.

The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.

While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.

Learning to be soft when intimidated is the key to progress. If the ego will not yield to the attackers physical aggression a conflict of the physical to co-exist takes place. This restricts the true concepts of Aikido to be realised.