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Old 01-30-2003, 08:47 PM   #10
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Ian Dodkins (ian) wrote:
I think good Aikido requires initial movement from the uke.

Ian
Please don't take me wrong, but this is very beginners concept.

If you want to do spontanous techniques (and THIS is aikido about ) you must be able to decide WHEN and HOW you will meet attacker.

You simply can't depend of his will, can you? One must be able to break attacker's balance in ANY situation, with no limits, no exceptions.

But to be able to do it tori must have a CHOICE. So before trying to imitate Founder's techniques when he was older, we must be able to control uke phisically by moving him at our will. Otherwise it will be always fake, poor imitation.

Tori is center of "Univers" and it is his responsability to move attacker around him like electron moving around center of atome. This is only way to figure out how REALLY things work. This way respects laws of Nature.

One can't burn stages of developpement of aikido jumping directly to "divine techniques of Founder", sorry!

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