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Old 04-02-2016, 07:47 AM   #41
Cady Goldfield
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Re: Why the extended fingers in Aikido postures

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My apologies for resurrecting an old thread. So which fingers are extended and when? Like during the technique at which point is which finger extended and when? Is it the right or left hand? Grabbing hand? What if you have a bokken? Just out of curiosity.
Refer back to post #38. The extended fingers are a by-product, not a "thing that you do" with them. The hands and fingers are a conduit for power generated by an entire-body process. Remember the little trick about the "unbendable arm" so popular in aikido? That's the tip of a very deep iceberg.

It doesn't matter "which hand," or whether you are holding a bokken. It's about the body itself and how you are activating a structural condition that facilitates the manipulating and directing of force. The arms, hands and fingers are providing the route to the point(s) of contact where you are sending that force. Breath and structural "shaping" of the elbow, hands and fingers facilitate that direction and process.
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