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Old 08-22-2014, 01:26 AM   #222
Alex Megann
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Re: Demonstrating aiki, demontrating aikido.Same thing ?

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Nick Belshaw wrote: View Post

"It had to be felt" means everything. Feel it and you will laugh and scratch your head...

and you will know that is what you want !
Hi Nick,

Welcome to AikiWeb!

I agree mostly with what you say about "it has to be felt", but it still has its limitations. You can feel that what someone (I can make a guess as to who you are thinking of here!) is doing is out of the ordinary, and aspire to have similar skills, but it may well be that that person's teaching methodology - if that isn't too strong a description in some cases - is unlikely to get you there. There are some inspiring and skilful aikidoka out there who don't necessarily understand how they got their skills, or even really know how they do what they are doing now.

Alex

Last edited by Alex Megann : 08-22-2014 at 01:32 AM.
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