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Walter Martindale · 06-20-2014, 04:03 AM

The late Kawahara Yukio, former Aikikai shihan for Canada, used to say that nage initiates. I generally imagined that - once there's been a decision that uke is going to attack, nage offers an initial movement to force (so to speak) uke to attack in a certain way...

I suspect that it's along the lines of "The best defense is a good offense."
sic pacem, para bellum (I think that's latin for "for peace, prepare for war"..

06-20-2014, 04:03 AM	#4
Walter Martindale Location: Edmonton, AB Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 802 Offline	Re: First Strike Philosophy - Sensei Darren Friend. The late Kawahara Yukio, former Aikikai shihan for Canada, used to say that nage initiates. I generally imagined that - once there's been a decision that uke is going to attack, nage offers an initial movement to force (so to speak) uke to attack in a certain way... I suspect that it's along the lines of "The best defense is a good offense." sic pacem, para bellum (I think that's latin for "for peace, prepare for war"..