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The Safest Place To Be
What is it you really fear?
bokken (wooden sword). In Aikido, whether with the bokken or in
tachiwaza (empty hand technique), I match up with the attack in my attack,
awase. Hanshi said,
“When you defend, you can be defeated.” That’s the training. Amen.
In the bokken attack, I wait it out – the mindset that the late Mizukami Sensei had ingrained in me over the years.