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Old 11-07-2011, 02:33 PM   #5
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Re: Overriding uke's determinism

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Graham Christian wrote: View Post
I Am saying that Aikido is about overriding ukes determinism.

Regards.G.
By determinism are you refering to the fact that uke invariably ends up on the floor and because of this there is a tendancy for uke to develop a defeatist mentality and so rather deterministically they do anything they can to get themselves on the floor.
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