Ma-ai month recap

March has been ma-ai month at Mokuren Dojo. We have paid particular attention to the spacing between partners and the timing of the attack. Following are several good articles that I have written during the past month on the topic of ma-ai (personal space).

• An introduction to ma-ai
• How to measure ma-ai
• You might want to measure every time during an exercise - this article sparked some good discussion/debate.
• You don't want to be so far from uke that you are comfortable - that's not ma-ai
• More details on how to measure ma-ai
• A good ma-ai exercise with a jo stave
• An exercise you can do every day, all day long outside the dojo
• And a general article about where ma-ai fits into the big picture of aikido

In closing, I'd like to refer y'all back to an article I wrote a couple of years ago about ma-ai. This is still my favorite ma-ai article on this blog, and it gels nicely with the above posts:

• Sneaking three inches

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