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O’Sensei Morihei Ueshiba trains in technical execution of the jo with his son, second Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba.

TECHNICAL EXECUTION

Nonresistance is an essential element of proper aikido technique execution. Intercepting, deflecting, and redirecting an attack—rather than blocking or resisting it—utilize the momentum and inertia of the attack. This is initially practiced by training to get off the line of attack, and by not attempting to stop an attack with force. Nonresistance does not mean being passively overpowered by the attack; that is a fear-based response that perpetuates a win-lose dynamic counter to the basic tenets of aikido Nonresistance is the positive and active entering, joining, and blending with an attack; the goal is a mutually beneficial win-win conclusion in which no one, including the attacker, gets hurt in any way. Rather than blocking an attack, an aikido practitioner with a weapon will simply avoid the strike, allowing it to follow its course without interruption, and then intercept the hands or body as the target. Just as the empty-hand techniques of aikido apply nonresistance, the same techniques can be executed with or against a weapon.