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Old 01-16-2009, 01:56 PM   #160
Mike Sigman
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Re: Using ki-skills for "aiki" in Daito-Ryu

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Ron Tisdale wrote: View Post
, in spite of the different approaches to usage in different arts.
It's confusing. Different approaches, different terms, different levels of the full abilities, different "purity" (some are "harder" due to the admixture of muscle to the process), and so on. But at heart it's all the same thing. When you see the Yin-Yang symbol, "Five Elements", "Eight Gates", and so on and so on, which you do in pretty much every Asian martial-art... that's the giveaway that they're talking about the same core principles of movement, despite any superficial differences.

FWIW

Mike
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