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In General
Grace and Power
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#190
09-30-2005 09:31 AM |
...if or when I find a happy medium between both, I will be --- to put it mildly ---simply ecstatic.
I get a lot of folks telling me how graceful I look on the mats, but from what I can feel, it's all form and no function. Maybe that's exaggerating things a bit --- it's not all that bad --- but I'm still not satisfied. Thankfully, my ukemi (particularly breakfalling) has been improving a great deal lately so it's not like I'm completely bummed out about where I'm at right now. I'm feeling a great deal lighter, which I can either attribute to: looking at nage all the way through the fall, or certain wonderous circumstances in my life as of late that have made me feel...shall we say...like I can fly. :-)
Whatever the case, training these days is copacetic. I'm out every day, going at 100% and my energy levels are good. Even my last in-class practice test went pretty darn well. But still...the holy grail of balance between grace and power eludes me.
Perhaps once my Aikido feels to you like you're getting hit in the mouth by a sugar-coated brick, then I'll be perfectly happy. ;-)
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