Tactile awareness means the ability to have a conversation with your partner through the point of contact.
Feeling intent through our ability to release our strength and align the structure with our centre of gravity.
Subtle changes in energy send ripples through our awareness centres, and are read like a blind man on a braille pad – if we know how to read such intent, we have access to the centre of the attacker and consequently to their root of power.
Seek to enter this dialogue in every moment and a new way of knowing can be born, one where we don’t do Aikido, but rather become Aikido.