Ki no nagare
The first thing to acquire in Aikido, before mobility, is stability of the hips. It is only after the hips have been stabilised by the study of kotai that the study of ki no nagare can begin.
Principles
The right gesture
If you don't understand the suburi you can't understand the kumitachi, if you don't understand the kumitachi you can't understand Aikido.
De rebus...
The multidirectional reality of Aikido exercises has been contracted into a false but necessary unidirectional pedagogical form.
Pebbles
When kumitachi n°4 is executed in line with a single opponent who attacks repeatedly, the second uketachi beat is incomprehensible.
Support or position ?
So much emphasis has been placed on the importance of hanmi that we've ended up putting this position everywhere, especially where it doesn't belong.
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