Re: Ellis Amdur showing Taikyoku Aikido - YouTube link
Hiya Phi,
I tend to practice the Taikyoku shapes from two perspectives (each having a continuum of form/training/principles vs. application):
1) How any technique is basically either a riff or chaining sequence of Taikyoku shapes, such that doing TKK shapes while fitting in appropriately with the energy another person brings will enable techniques to happen.
2) As a container for training internal strength - you need to have solid basics with regard to Jin, Ki, kokyu, etc - but the framework (with all movements being patterned on TKK which are themselves variations of ground up, gravity down, opening and closing the body) is comprehensive enough to imbue whatever IS practice you have into it.
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