Thread: The Way of Aiki
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Old 12-28-2016, 02:49 PM   #156
RonRagusa
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Re: The Way of Aiki

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Tarik Ghbeish wrote: View Post
We can choose to re-define words and we certainly should develop a common vocabulary to communicate well with the people we train, but I have never felt that "blending" was a useful word in training.
Blending, in it's most general form, is a process of mixing. In the context of Aikido, blending refers to the mixing of uke's and nage's individual motions so as to bring their conflicting trajectories into congruence in order to facilitate the execution of a technique.

Ron

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