Suganuma Sensei’s instructor’s notebook 3

Falling down is part of our everyday life. People lose their balance all the time, not only in Aikido practice: It may happen while walking

This is a sentence from the Chinese classic Texts, which I learned from Suganuma Sensei many years ago. It means: “To match the reaction to the changing circumstances”.

Suganuma Sensei wrote in his notebook: At the end of keiko (practice) while practicing Kokyuho, my partner told me: "Sensei, your body is like a rock".