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Re: Mopkido
Good observations. A couple of ways I've thought about it over the years:
1. If you have trouble believing that tenkan is always a forward movement, visualize having to make a quick u turn on a busy street to claim the only parking spot for miles around. I assure you, it is pure forward and entering! :-)
2. If in hamni, I work on feeling a small forward movement of the back hip that moves my energy forward but allows a corresponding reaction in which the front foot wants to step back. So while the net effect is stepping back, all the energy and intent is still forward.
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