
Ki no nagare
The first thing to acquire in Aikido, before mobility, is stability of the hips. It is only after the hips have been stabilised by the study of kotai that the study of ki no nagare can begin.
The first thing to acquire in Aikido, before mobility, is stability of the hips. It is only after the hips have been stabilised by the study of kotai that the study of ki no nagare can begin.
If you don't understand the suburi you can't understand the kumitachi, if you don't understand the kumitachi you can't understand Aikido.
The multidirectional reality of Aikido exercises has been contracted into a false but necessary unidirectional pedagogical form.