MM

During my short stint with Mike and Rob, I got to do shiko. Well, attempted, anyway. But, one thing I thought about was that the shiko exercise builds the framework. But it doesn't seem to build the power structure.

So, my guess is that Tenryu had the framework in place, but what he learned from Ueshiba was the power/path aspect. Pushing Ueshiba up the steps taught him how to work the paths through his body and merge it with the framework that his sumo training gave him.

Mark