jgrowney

My teacher gave me a great bit of advice regarding these sort of questions. Ask the question to yourself first. What would your response be if one of your juniors asked you this same question? How would you answer? If after a great deal of trial and error (coming up with your own answers and testing them) you still can not seem to figure it out, then ask your sensei.

This is the process of finding YOUR aikido. Just because a technique works a particular way for one person does not mean that it works the same way for another. You need to figure out how to make your technique work for you. The principles are the same for everyone, but how they are applied has tremendous variety.
Jim