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Old 12-15-2013, 08:42 AM   #6
patrick de block
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Re: Kobayashi Hirokazu

Since I started translating ... the article contains some very interesting thoughts.

Kobayashi's conception of movement is a movement that has to follow a spiral of energy (meguri) which expresses itself around the vital energy center (seika tanden).
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It uses the centrifugal and centripetal forces and the speed they produce to unbalance the attacker, combined with a system of torsion, rotation or hyperextension of the joints of the body of the attacker after an appropriate dodging movement which permitted to avoid his attack.
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He conceives meguri as something internal that has to happen before contact and which transforms the techniques. The extent of the displacement of the feet can be made smaller in this way, because stability is ensured by keeping your center while moving, whatever the action, because this does not require external force.
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This agrees (the teachings of Sumida) with the idea of Kobayashi that meguri is first of all internal. He discovers their natural existence in the muscle and joints chains. These meguri follow these anatomical entities that are paths of energy that become external in the body of Uke, while not being visible. People who are not informed say that the master does not move.
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In fact, practice shows that meguri is more effective when Tori himself follows the paths traced by the aikido techniques. To do nikyo you do a kote gaeshi on yourself and you do this with every technique.
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