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Old 11-29-2006, 08:14 PM   #284
Mike Sigman
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Re: Aikido: The learning of natural movement

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David Orange wrote:
For instance, I wouldn't dream of telling tai chi people that they need to do aikido-style tai sabaki instead of roll-back kinds of receiving forces.
Oh, yawn. You can't distinguish between tactics/stregegy and core strengths... worse, you think that "rollback", a la Cheng Man Ching, is some shibboleth of Taiji. It's equivalent to someone saying that all attacks in Aikido are met with "turning".

Mike
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