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Poll: How well taught is "being martially effective" in your aikido training?
AikiWeb Poll for the week of September 18, 2005:
How well taught is "being martially effective" in your aikido training?
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Re: Poll: How well taught is "being martially effective" in your aikido training?
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Re: Poll: How well taught is "being martially effective" in your aikido training?
One of our sensei is a police inspector. Oddly enough, he knows a fair deal about self defense...
However, martial arts (what the style) is just one tool to help oneself be safe. There are others: know you enemy (IE: read statistics, know which areas are dangerous, etc...), being aware of your surrounding and many others. Hell, all this has been said before in more eloquent terms than mine. |
Re: Poll: How well taught is "being martially effective" in your aikido training?
Question: How is "being martially effective" thaught in your aikido training?
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Re: Poll: How well taught is "being martially effective" in your aikido training?
I voted "Perfectly Well". If it were any less, I simply wouldn't be practicing it.
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Re: Poll: How well taught is "being martially effective" in your aikido training?
I think most folks think of martially effective as 'hard': hard blocks, hard throws to the ground, lots of effort and occasional bleeding and joint injuries.
Martial effectiveness can happen from a well placed touch and bending of the knees. The best training in martial effectiveness I receive is when three or four are sent to get me in randori - and I have to try to stay calm and move correctly. |
Re: Poll: How well taught is "being martially effective" in your aikido training?
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Feel the power and do the technique just hard enough to redirect and use your opponents power will save the energy you might need for the next one. So soft techniques (not necessarily a soft uke) are (can be) martially more effective than hard ones. I admit a hard atemi saves energy according to long-time grappling. But even if you train lethal martial arts (which we do not), you can save energy by knowing when and where to put the technique, which means it is softer to you - not necessarily to your uke ;) Dirk |
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