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In aikido, most of your training practice will be from a stationary position. You will stand there as your training partner approaches and attacks. You will walk through your technique in a sequential step-by-step fashion. This is where you start. Eventually, your training practice will become more dynamic and fluid. As your training partner approaches, in an attempt to attack, you will begin to enter and blend by moving with his momentum and inertia. The step-by-step process will become one step. Finally, the blending becomes a means to take your training partner's balance, and he or she will fall in response to your movement.

Enter and Blend

"Enter and blend" means to flow with your training partner's approach or attack, rather than resist it. To enter means to move into the attack. Blending means to join it, become one with it. You will seldom be instructed to back up. You will be asked to step off the line of attack. You will be asked to move forward toward your training partner, or at least into the space next to him or her. This emptying of space allows your training partner to be carried by momentum to a point beyond the anticipated target without meeting resistance.