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Mike Sigman wrote:
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Erick Mead wrote:
I am essentially saying that kokyu is just the extension of my balance control system into the other guy's balance system. Not as metaphor -- as physical reality.
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You could say the same thing about a simple, muscular push, too.
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... or a 9mm slug, or hitting him with a car at 40 mph, none of which is really aikido, either. In proper kokyu, I
have his balance and he is not quite sure where it left his control and entered mine -- I have not merely knocked it over with an excess of energy.