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Old 10-13-2006, 11:03 AM   #27
raul rodrigo
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Re: Criss Angel and Koichi Tohei

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Laurel Seacord wrote:
As some have mentioned, it is not a "trick". In addition to the mechanics of relaxation, one of my teachers recently explained that your posture/attitude is communicating to the people trying to lift you that it's an impossible task.
Your posture communicates to them that it's impossible? So its a kind of Jedi mind trick? I am not being flippant. Just trying to understand. So in addition to the biomechanical aspect, you are also trying to influences the ukes' minds?

Of course, in the very broadest sense, yes, minds are being influenced in the course of aikido waza. But a technique by Chiba or Arikawa or Isoyama or Morihiro Saito doesnt require influencing uke's mind. You go down no matter what you think.

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