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Joe Curran wrote:
Hi Alex,
If there are no set forms what then is Kihon Waza? Surely in Kihon Waza one learns?the BASIC waza?Of course having hopefully embodied these movements one can than be flexible and do many variations.The Kihon waza is the basic grammar of aikido.Just like the abc at school.Without truly understanding basic grammar could one write a book[not a comic book ?.Or even a comment [such as it is } of mine? Cheers, Joe.
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The short and dirty answer is that they're Jujutsu not Aikido. It's perfectly possible to master every technique taught in an Aikido dojo and never learn Aikido and end up with only some fairly low to medium level Jujutsu skills.
Aikido is higher level body mechanics that can be expressed through technique and very occasionally taught by technique, but in my experience, it needs someone who can do Aikido and can teach Aikido to lead someone to do Aikido through the Jujutsu techniques rather than just ending up doing Jujutsu.