Hello Goetz, wie geht es einen?
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Goetz Taubert wrote:
@ Ron Tisdale
"hard" is relying mainly on body-mechanics to exert the technique.
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Ok, but some people describe an art like Taiji as being soley about body-mechanics...a specific way to connect to the ground-path and channel that energy through the bones and ligaments to your opponant. Very mechanical descriptions of vectors, the way the body is built, etc. are used. And Taiji is supposedly as 'soft' art. How would your description reconcile this? After all, every art uses body mechanics of some sort...
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"hard" using strenght to exert the technique or control.
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Well, I use strength just to stand up. Even to tenkan. Does that make aikido hard?
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"hard" is applying pain to get the technique to the end.
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ok, well, there is a LOT of pain in some styles of aikido that otherwise might be called soft...the afore mentioned Aikido Kenkyukai might be one example. Their nikajo/nikyo can be excrutiating...but when performed shite/nage is very relaxed, and is using their center to affect the control. I might say much the same thing for Hsing-i or Bagua. So where does that leave us?
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No idea yet, how to define soft.
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Me either.
Auf wiedersehen...
Ron