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Contact can be initiated, intercepted, or focused on the attacker’s intent. Initiating contact and intercepting the momentum and inertia of any attack— with the empty hand or a wooden weapon—can take place at several different references to space and time. Sen is the initiative taken after an opponent’s position is analyzed. Gono-sen means immediately counterattacking. Sen-nosen is taking the initiative and intercepting or counterattacking the opponent’s attack before the opponent has physically initiated it. Ultimately, this depends on subtle perceptions of minimal physical cues indicating the opponent’s intent, but it appears to happen on its own. The body detects and responds naturally and automatically. Once the intent of the attack is assessed, the action can be intercepted by initiating an attack in defense, as a counterattack to the attack, or simply in response to the intent to attack. Intercepting allows an attack to be redirected away from the intended point of impact. Contact in weapons training is not just weapon on weapon, or wood on wood; contact implies a connection, musubi,that allows intuitive as well as actual communication.