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Old 09-02-2014, 02:04 PM   #307
Erick Mead
 
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Re: Demonstrating aiki, demontrating aikido.Same thing ?

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Katherine Derbyshire wrote: View Post
The various phenomenon described as "aiki" derive from the movement of physical structures and create movement in other physical structures. As such, they are at least theoretically measurable.

In practice, doing so would require that both uke and nage be wearing a wide array of sensors. It would be helpful to track brain waves, the movement of electrical signals through the nervous system, the tension/relaxation and acceleration of the musculature and fascia, and so forth. To the best of my knowledge, no such studies have actually been done. (Although links to any that exist would of course be welcome.)
Taiji has received some of this precise treatment -- to interesting result in this study. There was an accompanying video, I found again here here, and the accompanying Stanford news article on the study

There was some discussion on it in this thread:

Cordially,

Erick Mead
一隻狗可久里馬房但他也不是馬的.
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