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Old 04-12-2007, 02:01 PM   #88
L. Camejo
 
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Re: Aikido: The Way of Avoidance

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Chuck Clark wrote: View Post
I agree Larry, except since there's a lot of ambiguity in the word avoidance, so I don't use it unless I mean avoiding and disengaging when referring to budo theory.

By the way, what dictionary defines tai sabaki as "avoidance?"
Good question Clarke Sensei, I agree totally.

The use of "tai sabaki" in my above post is not supposed to be a translation for avoidance (apologies if I misled anyone). It is actually the term I have chosen to use to replace my original usage of the word avoidance for the same reason you indicated in your post, it can be ambiguous as we see in this thread. When I was initially taught, the word avoidance was used to explain the movements offline, into and around an attacker's strong lines of force as exhibited in tai sabaki (esp. when dealing with a strike) hence my reference to avoidance as tai sabaki. This however is not a dictionary definition in the least, my apologies again.

I totally agree with regards to keeping things precise and simple, training and teaching may have enough complexity as is. Like you said it is an ongoing process of refinement and I miss the mark sometimes.

Regards.
LC

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