Suganuma Sensei’s instructor’s notebook 4

“An Aikido practice that builds the partner. An Aikido practice that crashes the partner. An Aikido practice in which both the partner and me become

Quite a few years ago I learned the Japanese sentence: "Ichi-go Ichi-e". It translates directly into: "One instance, one meeting", but I think that "A once in a lifetime encounter " is closer to the true intent and meaning of the sentence…

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”.