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Old 08-10-2014, 07:06 AM   #188
MRoh
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Re: Demonstrating aiki, demontrating aikido.Same thing ?

I think calling things by the name they have in a special cultural context, does not mean that they do not exist somewhere else and can be described with other terms driving from other backgrounds.
In every part of the world people had to solve the same problems.
In medieval books about fencing, ( for example Talhofer, Liechtenauer) the instructions are similar to the use of the body in chinese arts. The coccyx is tucked under, the spine is straighten up, the body is connected an loaded like a bowstring.
In my opinion it seems very unlikely that only in china people found out how to use the potential of the human body and how the mechanics of the body work.

To bring it to perfection, and to combine it with fighting skills and spiritual development might be something that medieval knights belonging to a christian order also could have experienced.
The terms in which they described this, should differ from chinese language.

Last edited by MRoh : 08-10-2014 at 07:15 AM.
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