A step is missing !
It is not the irimi time that causes uke to loose balance, it is the tenkan time. This second time is therefore absolutely essential, as without it a step is missing.
Irimi tenkan
Unique action
Rotation is the energy of Aikido movement, and this energy always develops in two opposite directions.
Hodgepodge
In Aikido, there is only one position: hanmi, and there is nothing other than hanmi as a position. Hanmi precedes and follows movement.
Kill him!
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”.
Make love, not war !
Aikido techniques are designed to break, to destroy, and they're frighteningly effective at it.
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