This is taken from Aiki News Issue 087
There is an article with Interviews with Nishimura and Sakurai.
Quote:
Nishimura Sensei wrote:
People who had done kendo were deeply interested in Ueshiba Sensei's taisabaki (body movement) and came to learn from him.
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Up to now, I've been reading articles and thinking taisabaki was actually, as the article put in parenthesis, body movement. You know, how the body moved physically. But, the longer I thought about it, the more I wondered if they didn't mean the internal structural body skills.
I mean kendo people and high ranking kendo people already trained how to move. Really, I can't see them going to Ueshiba just to relearn how to move their body in their kendo practice. So, if it isn't basic body movement, then what was it? A way of moving the body that kept them centered on contact, perhaps? Core body structure in movement? Hmmm ...