Thread: Kaeshiwaza
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Old 06-19-2007, 12:24 AM   #16
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Re: Kaeshiwaza

Hi all,
I like a lot of the points that being made. I found as I analyzed the difference between kaeshiwaza and "normal" waza, there really wasn't much difference. I was having a hard time distinguishing the two. As was pointed out, we're always countering something in Aikido...even if we're being proactive. Still, instead of always having control, as I think is the predominant mode of Aikido training (nage is always "winning"), kaeshiwaza is more a practice of sensing an opening through which to recover...isn't it just another technique, further on down the potential timeline? I don't see what's so complicated about it...then again, I'm also relatively inexperienced, so I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be an authority where I shouldn't.
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