Quote:
Peter Rehse wrote:
I always understood stealing of technique to mean pay attention in class. Observation is key.
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Yes, observation, but it's still more feeling in our context. Watching is essential, but most things can not be seen with the eyes. For they don't happen on the surface but inside tori. So they have to be felt.
At least, that's the way how I experience it with Endō sensei and with the students of his when they teach. Endō sensei uses to go around during seminars and he tries to let everybody feel his technique, feel his body.
Anyway, you have to stea,l be it with your eyes or your feeling. That's how it starts.
When it becomes apparent that you got something, found out something, felt or saw something and you bring it up or show it -
then you get correction, explanation, instruction ...
That's what I tried to say: You are taught the things which you stole,
after you stole them.
So there is no contradiction between you and me, I think?