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Old 07-11-2005, 02:55 PM   #133
Mike Sigman
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Re: Highest Level Martial Arts and Aikido

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Kevin Leavitt wrote:
So how to you quantify or identify if someone is mimicking or actually doing it?

Are there vary degrees of it.? You can study from a good teacher and the first day you are mimicking or following the motions without understanding. I'd still say you are doing aikido, and doing it correctly, just not that correctly. As you progress you should get better and reach an internalization or understanding.
Yeah, it gets to be a semantics quibble. I simply say "I practice Taiji" or "I practice Aikido"... I try to avoid (literalist that I am) making a complete claim like "I do Taiji". Instead of those first-day people saying they "do Aikido", the most I'd say is "they're learning or attempting to learn Aikido". What they're doing is not yet valid Aikido. But again, let's not get too deeply into the "Aikido Police" mode. We have to realize that in the real world people will say what they want and it's not important enough to argue.
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That said, sometimes doing Jo Kata, I really do feel like the Star Wars Kid.
I thought you *were* the Star Wars Kid!

Mike
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