I can make you feel something, give me your hand.

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Now do something, move your hand in any direction you like.

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Whatever your movement, I am ahead. I feel what you are going to do because I am in control continuously.

What is the link with kumikata?

That is kumikata. Now you are going to do something again.

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Here, I do not know what you are going to do, I am late on your hand. I am after, I have no control. Whereas now I do, I am ahead.

What do you mean by control? I nevertheless have the impression that I am moving my hand freely, I do not feel constrained?

The control I am exercising here is not manipulating your action, it is knowing it. It belongs to sensation. In the practice of judo, control is always knowing and feeling what the other is doing without preventing it, by accepting it. Knowing at every moment where one is in relation to the other, where the other is in relation to oneself. This therefore imposes a limit on the actions one performs. Not all actions, not all gestures are possible when one has control, they are limited to those that allow one to remain with the other. There are very few of them. I mean that when one has control, one does not act alone.

Is it a way of doing something with the other, of being together?

Together, but ahead. By being vigilant I can perceive what you are going to do. It is a permanent availability. I cannot really explain it, I simply show it to you, you do whatever you want, I am ahead.

Why do you say “ahead”?

When you moved your hand the first time, you thought that I was merely following it. That is what you believed. But in truth I placed myself in an attitude that made you want to go where you went. I gave you the movement and you did it. That is anticipating the action. Being ahead is placing oneself in an attitude that gives the other the desire to do something.