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劍道裡的那一瞬間

2018-06-23 五分鐘的話,用講的,很快,用打字的,很慢,翻譯的話,更慢! For Colin, Rob and anyone who is interested in this conversation in Mandarine between me and some students in June 2015. The conversation started from one student asked me whether he was well-prepared for the "ippon" at the end of our ji-geiko. My main point was to emphasise that we need to have more "engagement" or"ai-ki" (synchronisation) in ji-geoko. These are nothing new but all based on the teaching from Sensei such as Inoue Hanshi , Morioka Sensei and my sensei in Taiwan long time ago. In my attempt of trying to explain this idea, I used some personal experience such as "locked by Sensei and seeing how Sensei kills me", one Ted Talk I shared with them before, and lastly, a common Korean drama theme presenting romantic relationship. I will try to translate (or sometimes just a summary because of repeating words) the conversation below. I f there is any thing that can help m