"You must enter to die," Sensei said at the seminar this weekend. "Then match. This is koryu, from the samurai. This is how you must think."
Profound words. I believe Sensei was talking about initiating the attack, exposing a vulnerability that draws the opponent in so you can match the movement and throw or pin him. He also talked about the neccessity to understand ancient Japanese culture to understand this. He said O-Sensei talked about this frequently, but nobody understood him.
He also talked about "Shinko no ki" or the "Ki of no air" that O-Sensei personally taught him. How to throw a person if they just touch you lightly by creating a vacuum in the ki that pulls him in. You could only learn this from O-Sensei apparently.
Great, great seminar.
