Aikido for 11/08/2011

Tuesday night it was just Ken and I who showed up for class. We worked on a couple of kokyunages and Ken talked about his experiences at the Tai Chi camp he attended last week. He showed how the Tai Chi master talked about using the ground to push off from and conntecting through the joints of the body to build up power to the hands and arms using the 9-link staff as a metaphor of working up through the leg joins, through the torso and spine, to through the shoulder, arm, and then hand. I found just that one observation helpful in my Aikido practice.