Tenkei Aikido Dojo

The great aikido master Sir Isaac Newton used to admonish his students that every force has an equal and opposite force. I would like to paraphrase this great insight as follows:
You are always one-half of any resistance you encounter.
As a corollary, we might also add:
When you resist yourself, you divide yourself.
You are the resistance you [...]

In aikido, training generally follows the kata training method. In the kata training method, two people train together as partners, each taking a pre-arranged role. In aikido, these roles are uke and nage. For training to be fruitful, a proper understanding of these two roles and their relationship is important.
The role of nage is [...]