Much obliged Stan
The generations who will use your discoveries in the future, without necessarily knowing their origin, will owe a debt of gratitude beyond time to Stanley Pranin.
An anniversary
... all the years of learning the method had served no other purpose than to prepare us for this new challenge.
Chichester
It is commonly believed that O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba was interested in Aikido. This is not the case.
道 = method
There are several methods, and I think Morihiro Saito's is the best. But there's also Gozo Shioda's method and Koichi Tohei's method, which are interesting in many ways. And then there's the Aikikai method.
Morote dori - How to grasp
In the morote dori grip, the opponent's arm is held like a sword, the back of his forearm embodying the back of the blade.
Kokyu ho - the story behind the name
If the technique demonstrated here is called kokyu ho rather than kokyu nage, it is because she is particularly significant of kokyu ho, and the name is in this case explicit, instructive, and therefore useful.
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