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Old 06-15-2010, 08:47 AM   #8
phitruong
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Re: Difficulty with Tenkan

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Mark Murray wrote: View Post
In a martial sense, the situation dictates where the center is located. You should be good at all three: you are center, attacker is center, mid-point between you and attacker is center.
this is true, but what have you seen as common practice in aikido? for me, i saw alot of getting out of the way, i.e. moving around uke, but not enough moving through uke.

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Backing out, moving backwards, stepping out of a tenkan are all common issues that create problems. To try to correct that, turn the spine first. Think of the spine as being free in your body.
problem is not many know how to connect their arms to their spine in a relax manner, then connect uke's arm to uke's spine to make one unit out of both nage and uke. this is what Ikeda called "unity". once you achieved unity, you move uke move.
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