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It is important to remain aware of the centerline—the imaginary line that runs directly down the body, dividing it equally into left and right. Keeping your hands on the centerline allows you to defend with more rapidity and efficiency. Maintaining your hands on the centerline also facilitates turning or pivoting from the hips or stepping with the feet, projecting full body power, momentum, and inertia into every movement. Maintaining visual awareness of the attacker’s centerline provides a larger field of vision and facilitates a greater use of peripheral vision to detect movement of both the upper and lower body. Alignment to both centerlines (yours and your attacker’s) provides a connection and positioning, which adds to the effectiveness and efficiency of the technique you execute. The path of the weapon must follow the centerline of the body, especially when executing an overhead shomen-uchi strike. The weapon is always held in front of the body centerline, and movement is initiated by turning the whole body.