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Reuben Yap wrote:
Now I'm told that Aiki is something intangible and cannot be explained...though personally (and I may be wrong) Aiki is about
a) Not harming your opponent and loving them; and
b) Not using force but not just submitting to threats
If a technique can meet these requirements then I would say, why isn't it Aikido?
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Do you believe that either A or B are or -- or have ever been -- exclusive to aikido? I don't. And since they are not exclusive to aikido, they cannot differentiate aikido from other martial arts and therefore do not produce a useful definition of aikido by themselves.
Aikido is a specific martial arts tradition, technically rooted in Takeda's Daito ryu and transmitted through Morihei Ueshiba. If we decide to ignore this and instead call anything aikido that fits a couple of vague philosophical principles, aikido as we know it will cease to exist.
For my part, I happen to like aikdo as we know it; that's why I train it.