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Old 01-26-2012, 10:38 AM   #203
DH
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Re: "The goal is not to throw"

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It is worth considering that when it comes to highly cooperative practice, specifically in regard to its limitations as a training model:
There is a learning curve in most arts that includes cooperation at lower levels. We all have it and have trained it. Worthy of note is it is only...at the lower level of learning. Most move on to active resistence.
One strident argument of the Aiki arts that I have never bought into is the so called "destructive" nature of their stuff were it used on resistenting ukes. That is of course true, but it is only partially true. Teaching better attacks and more active resistence and the sensitivity needed, both to do and to handle each role would seem more logical and benficial to me. Martial arts are best done as a fluid drill and not a static kata, which is part of aikido (one of many of it's potential strengths and an improvement over Daito ryu) but it does not explore more stressful attacks from what I have seen.
Dan

Last edited by DH : 01-26-2012 at 10:44 AM.
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