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Ross Robertson wrote:
Ack. "It's" second paragraph should be "its."
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Took yer own balance for a second there, eh?
Thank you for a thought-provoking essay.
One way I've heard it expressed is that the attacker creates the dis-harmony and the aikidoka simply does what allows it to fully manifest, keeping intact her own structure/integrity/insert word here.
Yet from a pedagogical point of view, I think in most dojo we tend to look at and ask juniors to be aware of and use the small steps along the way that increase dis-harmony in the attacker (from a structural point of view, say, forward weighting; from an energetic point of view, say, momentarily putting their mind over there rather than over here).
Dan Messisco teaches having nage purely concerned with her own place in the world, keeping integral structure and moving from one pose to another, not concerned with uke. A very intriguing exercise at seminars I've attended but I'm not sure how it works as a consistent training model.
I don't have any "answer" but keep working on the questions each time I train :-)