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Hello everyone, i have a question?
Has Dr.Soke Hatsumi, ever talked/wrote about theory/idea about circles?
Anything about them with training or otherwise?
I'am serious about this question this is not a joke.

I ask because i think i might of accidentally stumbled on to something.
Not sure quite what.
Thank you.

 

Do you mean three-dimensional "balls" or two-dimensional "circles"?

If the latter, keep going until you come to the former. :love:

-ben

 

Thanks BEN!
That was very helpful.

 

Soke spoke about the sign outside Takamatsu sensei's restaurant at the Norway (?) Taikai in 2002. It was a circle with a line through it.

Sensei spoke about it in relation to becoming zero and then dividing that by half (half of zero)

I think i grasped a little bit of what Sensei was trying to get us to understand, but if any one else was at that Taikai they might have a better handle on it than me.

Dave.

 

Hmm...
I wonder if he was referring it to the in/yo ?
" A circle is suppose to be a perfect shape, we do things habitably with in a circle, people we talk to and associate are within or outside our circle, atoms, nutrons, cellular structure are circles,
Isn't the happo no kamae a eight directional stance within a circle" Etc....
Interesting

 

Maybe he just wanted to see how many people chased their tails over it.
What's half of zero? Or infinity?

Jen.

 

Ze and Infi....

 

I am a traditional aikidoka and may offer some food for thought (pick your brains). Happo giri is a form of standing (within a circle) and by a simple turn of the hip being able to engage anyone attacking from anywhere on the circumferance of the circle. I was told that our art aikido or aiki ken is executed from a triangular posture rather than the circular movements often seen. When I said that this meant that there are no circles in aikido movement I was told that the circles are there BUT they have no diameter.

regards koyo

 

Zero or a circle has no beginning or end. The InYo of distance has no beginning or end.

The zero is cut in half to represent heaven and earth, over and under, in or out, in or yo. (Good and evil)

This is a decent explanation, and i've heard many others. But if you ask Hatsumi Sensei he will just laugh... because you still don't get it.

Could be a joke...

 

Maybe he was just having a Yoda moment....
Jen.

 

There's no such thing as a circle. Such things are illusions. Think of spirals instead.

 

Are you absolutely sure about that!
Search further, you might get some very startling results.
I did!!!

 

Be careful of associating good and evil with in and yo.

 

It was just an analogy to demonstrate the idea of two sides.

Maybe a better analogy is the two poles of a magnet, negative and positive.