aikido quote

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[Sonja2012]

I read the quote "aikido is the art of hitting people with planets" here on aikiweb a couple of times. Does anyone happen to know who said this originally?

Warm regards,
Sonja

[PSM]

I don't know who said it, but I think I know what it means

It think it means that you end up using the earth by slamming their faces into the ground using the techniques (along those lines).

[Roman Kremianski]

From what I remember, I think someone said that as a joke

[Mike Hamer]

I interperate it as we use the power of the universe against our oppentents

[Mark Uttech]

It could have been the late Terry Dobson; I'm only adding this because it is the first thing that came to memory.

In gassho,

Mark

[Roman Kremianski]

It think it means that you end up using the earth by slamming their faces into the ground using the techniques (along those lines).

Wouldn't that technically make Judo and Wrestling also the art of hitting people with planets? (Among many things)

[Paul Sanderson-Cimino]

Wouldn't that technically make Judo and Wrestling also the art of hitting people with planets? (Among many things)

Yeah, but they're not classy enough to use cool quotes like that.