Re: Silk reeling
Ha, I might have guessed that the quoted comment had already been discussed somewhere online. Hopefully they'll be an Aunkai UK at some point and I will get a chance to compare the differences myself.
On the point of silk-reeling not being a key feature of aikido movement, surely it's relevant if, as uke, you decide to give a bit more resistance. Mike, I think you mentioned looking for it in the wrist exercises, so if an uke is competent silk-reeler, wouldn't it be all but automatic for them to relax and extend out of an attempted technique with a silk-reeling movement? After all, uke-ing is aikido too. Maybe they'd go back to "pulling-silk" immediately afterwards - an interesting distinction. Anyway, it's something that, at the risk of being perceived as awkward (again), I shall experiment with.
Regards,
Jon
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