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When kumitachi n°4 is executed in line with a single opponent who attacks repeatedly, the second uketachi beat is incomprehensible.
When kumitachi n°4 is executed in line with a single opponent who attacks repeatedly, the second uketachi beat is incomprehensible.
So much emphasis has been placed on the importance of hanmi that we've ended up putting this position everywhere, especially where it doesn't belong.
An oversimplification that has led to the belief that everything in Aikido must be done in hanmi and that hanmi must be applied to everything.
In Aikido, there is only one position: hanmi, and there is nothing other than hanmi as a position. Hanmi precedes and follows movement.
To win in Aikido is not to win over the other, it's to win over the spirit of combat within oneself, to “cut off the attachment to life and death”.
Every Aikido movement is a rotation in which tori is the center. Tori must therefore take the center of the movement and occupy it until it ends.