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A couple of weeks ago I attended a series of seminars which were about the psychology of investing money, tips to build businesses and the key to being successful. I know, it sounds a bit strange to mention financial topics, entrepreneurship and the key to success in an aikido blog but I hope that, by the end of this post, you will understand why I mention them here.

In one of my recent trainings, a frequently occurring question/problem has come up. This problem usually occurs with beginner students: when they are practicing, as uke they want to resist the defenders movement, they want to stop them from executing a technique.

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This post is inspired by the question of one of our users who has watched our instructional video about tegatana.

Find the question below, and also, what I answered. Now I'm attempting to explain my view about tegatana further.

The question:

As I promised earlier, with my blog posts here I try to follow the posts written in my two other Hungarian blogs. This is the first such post, and I'd like to write here quite often from now on. I'd like to invite you to discuss and think about things inspired by quotes from O'Sensei. I'd also like to share my own thoughts with you to start the discussion.