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Mike Sigman wrote:
You don't seem to understand ... ... you don't already know it. ... You simply don't know basics. ... you've done nothing to support your assertions.
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Please. Just call me "ignoramus," get it over with and move on. It will save time in confirming the absence of any actual argument.
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Mike Sigman wrote:
Insofar as your casting Tohei out of the fold because he didn't really understand proper Aikido, I really have no comment.
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Really, now. That is a debate I distinctly declined to enter ...
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Erick Mead wrote:
Wherein you point out the precise question that eventually divided Tohei from Aikikai. Way above my paygrade.
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I think there is no debate that it happened, and I expressed, and express no opinion on exactly why, who left whom, and whether justified or not.
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Mike Sigman wrote:
.. and "nei jia", which you compared Taiji to out of the blue, with the idea that I had first made that attribution. I never did. I have no idea where your brain-hiccup is, but you appear to have lost yourself.
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Perhaps you should read as well ... actually you brought that strawman up wholly on your own -- don't go blaming me
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Mike Sigman wrote:
I don't know of a single westerner who I'd consider skilled in Taiji, Bagua, etc
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Mike Sigman wrote:
Frankly, you appear to have no idea of what "internal strength" means and surely you don't think that Taiji is "resistive", do
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MIke Sigman wrote:
I don't think this is very productive, Erick.
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On that we agree, since I made a few more substantive points you snipped away as though that disposes of them. But it is a bunch of fun. I'm having fun, are you?
And while we're counting strawmen -- there's this one, too:
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Mike Sigman wrote:
You've already cast Tohei to the wolves for "resisting", without seeming to have remembered that many of Ueshiba's 'ki demo's' also involved him resisting a push to the head, to the stomach, to the leg, to the jo, etc.
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