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Re: Striking in your Aikido

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James Cavin wrote: (Post 207521)

How many of you practice striking on a regular basis in your aikido?

Our instructor shows us how we might use our striking while doing our techniques, but i've only had one practice so far that has included some drills for them.

I've noticed that some people are of the opinion that striking is a must for their aikido. How many of you feel that it plays that much of a role?

Questions from a noob here so please don't flame me. :p

In our dojo we train by doing. We start off at 6th kyu with heavily stylised atemi done slowly and gradually we build things up until by about 2nd kyu you're throwing and recieving fairly powerful and free form shots. So you might start out with countering yokomen utchi with yokomen utchi at 6th kyu and end up throwing a hook or a straight punch by 1st.
Of course along the way you learn to deal with them, either by learning to ride with the shot, block it or parry it with a slap, or you just get hit. :D
Keeps you on your toes, builds your reflexes and generally makes for very alive training.

Re: Striking in your Aikido

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Martin Goodyear wrote: (Post 208246)

For some time now, I've thought that the people who can probably make aikido work best in a fight are those that can already fight before learning aikido! They don't seem to have the same soul searching around the whole issue, and can just gradually develop their coordination, timing and confidence through aikido.

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...and you can take that to the bank

:eek: is that quote from a segal movie? :crazy:

I think this capture my thoughts around this - as I've said earlier, I no longer see Aikido as a 'fighting' system so have no issue about using the tools of Aikido to extract other things.

I've seen the same in others who come to the dojo with a proven history - they bank that knowledge set and just add Aikido to it.

Thanks Martin.

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