Thread: Aikido attacks.
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Old 02-05-2012, 04:28 PM   #4
Demetrio Cereijo
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Re: Aikido attacks.

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Graham Christian wrote: View Post
1) Those attacks generally called hanging the arm out by the ill informed are correct as Aikido attacks.
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.
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.
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.
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
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