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Old 02-20-2007, 09:35 PM   #627
Mike Sigman
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Re: Baseline skillset

Just for the record, I'd like to note one comment in the translated interview. O-Sensei says: "I sat down and said to Tenryu, "Please try to push me over. Push hard, there's no need to hold back." Since I knew the secret of Aikido, I could not be moved an inch."

Notice that Ueshiba is saying that the "secret of Aikido" has to do with an ability to stand immoveable while being pushed. That is jin, the essence of the kokyu force. That jin/kokyu is used as the power to the strategic techniques of Aikido, techniques which do not offer any brute resistance but which draw their great "kokyu power" from the essence that Ueshiba is talking about as "the secret of Aikido".

FWIW

Mike Sigman
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