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Old 12-23-2009, 10:34 AM   #72
Erick Mead
 
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Re: Some similarities in Internal Body Skills between Chinese and Japanese arts

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Start with a sentence of actual substance of a technical process.
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Aiki in yo ho is the application of systemic resonant shear -- meaning that stresses and motions are enabled to change sign and planes of action interchangeably and continuously -- torsional, tensile or compressive shear that applies torsional, tensile or compressive buckling or funicular load shifting: torsional, like in a torqued pool noodle; tensile, like in a whip; compressive, like in a collapsing building; funicular loading, like in a chain or arch.

And technically, that was all in one sentence.

What a great exercise. Like haiku with mechanics, almost...

One training method -- find all the ways your body can act in the manner of those things.

Here endeth the lesson -- but the proof is left as an exercise for the class...,
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But -- somehow -- I rather doubt the complete sincerity of the request.


Cordially,

Erick Mead
一隻狗可久里馬房但他也不是馬的.
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