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Old 05-05-2011, 11:24 AM   #110
hughrbeyer
Dojo: Shobu Aikido of Boston
Location: Peterborough, NH
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Re: Tadashi Abe and Kenji Tomiki and their criticism

Y'know, I think we have to be more specific about what we mean by IP. Aikido is an internal art--all aikido is internal to some degree. I've never met the aikido dojo where they don't talk about ki, connection, and taking balance.

So I think the interesting questions are: What are you trying to achieve with internal power? What concepts and language do you have to talk about it? How detailed is that language? How specific can you be about using internal power to deal with specific martial situations, not just the attack but what happens after the attack? How does your understanding of internal power integrate with external movement?
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