Thread: torifune and IS
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Old 10-22-2011, 06:22 AM   #27
Carsten Möllering
 
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Re: torifune and IS

Thank you very much for your comments and answers!!!
I'm learning a lot!

One furhter question:

First I learned torifune with opening-and-closing the fists.
I then learned it with closed fists, thumbs outside.
I finally was taught to do it with closed fists thumbs inside. (Which I find in the explanations of Rev. Barrish.)

But I experience it "difficult" to do torifune this way when "adding" dantian rotation. It feels like the dantian rotation "pushes" the thumbs out of the fists. Or if there is a "contradiction".
I also experience it "difficult" when using dantian rotation to not also rotate my arms/fists around their axes. (Like Ueshiba does in the video.)

Thoughts (or experiences)?

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Phi Truong wrote: View Post
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anyway, right over left or left over right, methink, wasn't the real part. it's the "move inside", that's the real thing.
My aikido teacher is also teacher of a koryu. And when he teaches something of the "esoteric stuff", it is always important whether right or left do ... whatever they do.
In most cases you can immediatly feel the difference. And very often what he teaches is different from what I was used to up to then.
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