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Old 04-21-2010, 09:35 AM   #48
Erick Mead
 
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Re: Any offensive moves in Aikido?

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George S. Ledyard wrote: View Post
... Every atemi you execute when attacked can be used when attacking. We need to lose this whole uke / nage dichotomy. We also need to stop attaching pseudo moralistic value judgments to things like who initiates.
... We need to get way past trying to impute some sort of moral, right and wrong value judgment to the term "aiki".
To paraphrase Dr. Freud: Sometimes a punch in the face -- is just a punch in the face ...

Cordially,

Erick Mead
一隻狗可久里馬房但他也不是馬的.
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