The gesture, the Aiki technique is tested and experienced from both sides. The practitioner is in his experience, both uke and tori. It embodies the two figures on both sides of the coin, the relief and the cavity, the equilibrium and disequilibrium, standing the station and the case, to be guided to and fed. Uke and Tori are the same. Granted, not really at the same time, but the man is an animal of memory and the trace of the Uke is still fresh in Tori, when he throws Uke, because he already sees himself as Tori.
This agreed exchange – of the fact of the practice and not just the, what he allegedly simulated – definitely our best tool, to help us the way of the union, from “To” defined, continue ...
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