Sounds simple enough, right? Actually it's harder than it sounds.
Most of us have been trained to stay extended, but also most of us during the execution of the technique, find our hands or arms pulled in towards our body. This gets us bound up and not able to move when the Uke presses a little more.
What Henry tries to teach us is to stay extended through-out the technique and when Uke presses or moves forward, the Nage moves their feet to account for the pressure of the Uke moving in. This is what he enterpreted of what O-Sensei said when he asked "Why can't we do what you do?" and O-Sensei replied "Because you don't know Yin and Yang".
Whether it's Tenchinage, Katatekosadori Kokyunage or anther technique, staying extended is a must. Moving your feet to maintain the Center between you and Uke, will allow the Technique to happen or create itself. We have all been trained to move our hands to create the technique. Henry's emphasis on staying extended, moving your feet and letting the hands alone is the hard part. We always want to still try to complete the technique with our hands, maybe because we don't trust the movement of our feet to do the job. If we just "take one more step", the technique will usually happen, but sometimes it takes a little patience.
Another quote that Henry tells us from O-Sensei is "The Movement of the Universe is expressed through you feet".
Simple enough, right?
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