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.

There really are no throws in Aikido only the art of leading your partners ki with your ki in a unified direction. Anything other than this opposes harmony and will inevitably be a throw.

In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.