L'espace 1/3 - Aikido kobayashi

Whatever form he uses to grab, the distance in between my hand and my center will have changed. This is very important. It's true in omote and in ura. If he changes from katate to ai hanmi you must not let him grap your hand your body has moved the hand has moved during the action... the form will have changed, you can show this so he takes that... the distance in between the hand and the center will have changed during the attraction and the technique. This is really the key. This was the basis of Kobayashi sensei's teaching. If you integrate these principles you can start practicing these techniques if you don't integrate them you won't be able to apply them. We are going to start with simple forms because we are in a class open to all. Here, you are used to doing tenkan avoid blocking your hand, avoid fixing yourself, nor your foot nor your hand, but move straight away, by pivoting. It's important that in the rotation there is a dynamic. It's also important that the body should be able to move during the action. Here, forward or towards you or in absorbtion. I am exagerating a little, but that's the idea. Here, in front. Here, in absorption. Or here... Whatever the technique you are applying you will always have you will always have to move the body before the contact modify the position of the hand and modify it's position in the peri-corporal space. This is really the key to the action. Go ahead. Yoko irimi, shihonage sankyo, tenshinage, please. The most common mistake the one I see the most. I start over there go all away around and I see the same thing The same thing to correct. You are not conscious of the direction of your feet. I see throws like this, with feet like that! First of all like that there is no work, it's as if they were there by chance. They're in any kind of position! You don't care! No! If the position of your feet isn't organized, there is no technique. The technique is all the body. There is not one part of the body that isn't working. Not one. And the feet are extremely important. Important for 2 reasons, the first is mobility, the second is because they organize, because they receive the energy from the earth, they organize the action's direction. If the feet are here and the hands over there in between this direction and that one there's an opposition. I can't have strength here with my feet directed there. When my feet are like this, I have one directed here and the other there, my strength is divided in two. When I push this way I am missing at least half or more. It's extremely important that your feet be directed towards the action towards your partner's center. There must be a convergence in between the arms action, the feets action, the hips action. You are linked by your feet, that's why you must move them at the beginning because if you don't move them, if you're fixed your partner will hardly move. You are also linked by the hips, because your hip movements influence his dynamic. And you are linked by your hands Ok. We already saw how important hands were. Kobayashi sensei always worked on the meguri, always. It's a way of energizing the other's body and it's also a way of energizing yourself, of being aware and and mentally mobile. But if the feet are not correctly positioned, nothing works. When you throw like this as some of you are doing would you ever eat like this? Try and drive your car like that, both feet through the window and try to drive, you'll see. You can't do anything like that. I hope you don't do anything like that in everyday life. Even if I must do tenkan and enter here when I throw, I am headed here. It's absolutely essential. It's not a detail. If you can correct that you will correct all of your aikido. If you don't correct it then in 30 years you will still be doing the same thing and you will have spent 30 years doing nothing. It's essential. Even when moving back we'll see that, it's a little more complex but we can start talking about it. You are on a line here, what's important is that your hips initiate the action and not your foot. If you do this, it's moving laterally. A foot that moves laterally does not exist. It must not exist. Nor this way, nor that way. A badly executed Yoko irimi. Here, move back so they can see. Imagine my partner is still here. You mustn't move your foot like this. A foot isn't made to move in this direction. It's made to move like this. In aikido, when it doesn't move like that it moves like this. If you need to absorb here your hip must turn your hip pivots and your foot follows your feet will never be a problem if you do it like that. They'll always be heading the right way. But if you move them, the feet, laterally, you'll find yourself with your feet crossed and obviously not headed towards your partner's center. Your heading that way and even if you wring your foot to try you'll still be headed here because your hips indicate the direction. Is it clear? So for a moment concentrate. In demands some effort, for half an hour, one hour, two hours, three days, a week, a month, concentrate until you get your feet to move, to point in the right direction and starting from there you will improve tremendously. If you don't do that you'll never improve. So, maybe some didn't see the techniques clearly. Here, the yoko irimi, there's several ways of doing it. In can be a turning motion while drawing the partner in. It can be in tenkan, ok. It can be moving forward, let's work on the same side for now, It can be here moving forward, directly. It doesn't matter. That is your choice. You can work in the space that is behind him, you can work in this middle space, the one that's here, and you can work in the space that's over there. That's the whole point it's free because we must keep this mobility this freedom.