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Old 08-09-2014, 08:35 AM   #182
Keith Larman
Dojo: AIA, Los Angeles, CA
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Re: Demonstrating aiki, demontrating aikido.Same thing ?

And all that said, I still do this stuff in the photo on a regular basis. Whole body training on a very hot day. 8 feet long, 1.5 inch schedule 40 PVC. Just pole shaking. Lately I've managed to get connected up but I can feel the dantien (ooooh, there's one of those words) moving around out of control. Now that I can feel "it" getting pulled around I've been better able to work on getting it more under control. My daughter was watching me recently and opined that my belly looked like a soccer ball inside a clothes dryer... Which corresponds quite well with how it felt... I'm trying to get that soccer ball to not get bounced around so much and connect up better. You know, dantien... Or soccer ball in a dryer. Whatever works for you.

But I'm pretty sure I'm not a dryer and I know I don't have a soccer ball in my gut...
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