Rovaniemi 2019

Описание: Only 1 theme on this seminar. In a lecture, Yamaguchi Sensei had said this in -76:

"I only know this: left or right, up or down, front or back".

I don't have any idea what he meant. Uke left?, Nage up? Whose left and right? Uke's, nage's, or of the system made of us?

This seminar is an attempt to test the formula, if the answer is uke's front or back, with the assumption that we were concerned about a meeting.

Below a long quotation. It's from a text from the same lecture in -76 by Yamaguchi Sensei. I'm sure you get the point.
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One views this from the general to the particular and from the particular to the general; one thinks of things from the opposite point of view. This is very important. What it means is that if a strong man depends on his strength during techniques, he shall never understand them well. In these circumstances even if one possesses strength one must deny it. It is an important part of Aikido that the very weak can learn to move and can succeed. If this precept is understood you can discover in yourself the ability to move. The strong man who
relies upon his strength cannot make his discovery - whatever he does. Conversely, the weak man, in a certain sense, has the advantage. There is an old saying that “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword”. Those who depend on force shall be destroyed by force. Thus when practicing Aikido this ‘reversed spirit’ is very important. One has a natural tendency to follow the inclinations of one’s own character no matter what happens. But when studying the way, you must once and for all destroy such bad habits. You must discard not only the bad points of your character, but also the good points. If you do not do so, your eyes cannot be opened in a true sense. Only after you have eliminated the good and the bad points of your character will you be able to, through practice, realize the truth. This is something which is connected with achieving liberation in a real sense. Aikido is thus one of the roads to liberation.