Extension is the fundamental movement of freeform aikido. Its basis really is the co-ordinated spinal extension as expressed through any attempt at vertical posturing both upright and inverted. It becomes expressed as an ambassador of unity though any full bodied gesture or intent for contact.

Freeform aikido focuses on the co-ordinated spinal extension that informs our verticality, and aims both to unify with this directional impulse, and to lead it beyond support…