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Graham Christian wrote:
1) Those attacks generally called hanging the arm out by the ill informed are correct as Aikido attacks.
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In some aikido styles, but not in others.
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2) The attacks in Aikido, namely the strikes, are done so for a reason and the way of striking in other arts is different for a reason.
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And?
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3) Whether done at 3 miles per hour or fifty, with great power or without, it all fits the basic reason.
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The basic reason is?
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4) When it therefore looks 'unmartial' or indeed unreal then the majority of times that is due to not knowing or recognising this reason by the onlooker.
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The basic reason you mentioned before?
Ah, I got it...
The answer to the question "Does anyone know what that reason is?" is
developing aikido practitioners who are incompetent as martial artists