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No Fear in the Moment
Fear is what it is to be human. Yet, I choose who I am going to be in any given moment.
In Aikido practice, the 250-pound dude rushes in to punch my face. I might fear in anticipation of his attack. How strong is he? How quick is he? Is he aiming through my head? Even after over 30 years of Aikido training, those thoughts sometimes arise. I fear before the attack, the fear of impending danger.
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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.