
The tenkan effect
Tenkan is impossible without irimi, but irimi is powerless without tenkan. There is a tenkan effect on uke which moves him.
Tenkan is impossible without irimi, but irimi is powerless without tenkan. There is a tenkan effect on uke which moves him.
‘Kata mo hiji mo koshi mo kimochi o sagete’, which means ‘lower your shoulders, elbows, hips and feeling’.