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Kevin Leavitt · 07-05-2005, 08:20 AM

interesting question Mike. Reminds me of baking a cake. A world re-knowned/master cake baker can spend years on refining baking the perfect cake. A novice, in theory, can follow the same receipe, replicate the same exact conditions, and bake that same perfect cake.

So what separates the master from the novice?

I think there is much more to mastery than replicating a single cake or perfecting a sword kata. It is the ability and experience to take a brand new set of conditions and create/resolve the situation in the manner you want.

07-05-2005, 08:20 AM	#100
Kevin Leavitt Dojo: Aikido of Northern Virginia Location: Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 4,251 Offline	Re: Highest Level Martial Arts and Aikido interesting question Mike. Reminds me of baking a cake. A world re-knowned/master cake baker can spend years on refining baking the perfect cake. A novice, in theory, can follow the same receipe, replicate the same exact conditions, and bake that same perfect cake. So what separates the master from the novice? I think there is much more to mastery than replicating a single cake or perfecting a sword kata. It is the ability and experience to take a brand new set of conditions and create/resolve the situation in the manner you want.