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Unique action
Rotation is the energy of Aikido movement, and this energy always develops in two opposite directions.
Rotation is the energy of Aikido movement, and this energy always develops in two opposite directions.
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”.
Aikido techniques are designed to break, to destroy, and they're frighteningly effective at it.