about moving your belt knot first. The knot of your belt, and eventually your hakama, will be placed directly over your center and can be used as a point of reference.
Become the Center
When doing circular movements, become the center of the circle, allowing your partner to rotate around you. O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba believed that one should move like a beam of light, fly like lighting, strike like thunder, and whirl in circles around a stable center. Think of your center as the middle point of a circle. Think of your training partner's center as the middle of his or her circle. Standing at a distance from each other, you form an oval. As your training partner approaches or attacks, the distance between the centers lessens. Capturing the center, and becoming the center, leaves your training partner going around you on the periphery of the circle. A slight turn from the center will create a greater distance on the circumference of the circle. This circular motion makes use of both centripetal (inward spinning) and centrifugal (outward spinning) forces. Spin like a top. Hold your body straight and think of your turns as if you were a top spinning at the center of the circle. By becoming the center of the technique, you generate momentum and power.
Keep Your Training Partner Close
Do not let your training partner get too far away from you. To maintain control, keep very close contact. If you let your training partner get too far away from you, you will have to reach and overextend yourself beyond your balance point, breaking your own vertical physical alignment horizontally, and losing all your power. To maintain power in your technique, keep your circular movements tight and your training partner close.
Follow the Radius and Circumference
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