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Old 08-04-2008, 01:12 PM   #33
Erick Mead
 
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Re: "Aiki" in Russian Video Clips

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Dan Harden wrote: View Post
Iron sharpens iron. Enjoy it.
I do. But a waterstone sharpens better; ceramic sharpens even better than that, and diamonds, better yet. And whoever heard of a Japanese sword sharpened with a steel, outside of some garage wallhanger collection? {Shudder.]

(For what it's worth ceramic and diamond hones required some amount of technical work to make, and to improve in making them even more effective, and they probably looked really messy while they were sorting out the correct principles.)

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I would never engage in a debate over terms and methodology to perform complex gymnastic floor exercises on the net.
Funny. My daughters are gymnasts. And even funnier, you seem to be alone in that regard, since the gymnastic folks seem to make perfectly good use of it:
http://www.gymnasticsrevolution.com/Parents.htm

In fact, by careful study of principles, people have even have been able to invent new things, and novel applications, which I believe Sagawa discusses also. Go figure!. http://www.gymnasticsrevolution.com/Parents%2021.html

Cordially,

Erick Mead
一隻狗可久里馬房但他也不是馬的.