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Try to keep your hands at hip width apart. A good training visualization is to see your hands and your hips as the four corners of a square, which move together. As the hip goes forward or back, the hand on the same side goes forward or back. Keeping your hands and hips aligned helps coordinate the full-body movement characteristic of aikido.

Always stand straight. You should feel as if you are being lifted up, allowing your spine to elongate. Keep the body erect and straight. Hold a proud upright posture.

Motion and Momentum

Aikido is a very fluid and dynamic art. In the beginning, you will train by standing in a static position and practicing the techniques. Later, as your training partner approaches, you will begin to enter and blend with him by moving in to meet him and gently guiding or redirecting his momentum into the technique. Your technique will no longer be a sequential series of moves, but one fluid move. This fluidity of motion and momentum makes aikido look a lot like dance. Aikido is a very powerful dance of self-defense and personal transformation.