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David Skaggs wrote:
Why are you concerned about figuuring it out?
Sounds like excellent advice and probably the best for all Aikido techniques.
David
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That's rather like my parents who said, "You'll understand when you're grown up. Well, I am almost sixty and a grandfather, and many of the things they said still make no sense to me... I figure that, if it's ever going to make sense, it's explainable right now.
There may be something that, even with the best explanation, will not really be understood without lots of practice. But, in my experience, when a teacher starts in on just do it and you'll understand later, he is usually either not comfortable with the technique enough to explain it coherently or is simply feeling to lazy at the time to do so.
The exception to this is in the case of the relatively rare student who is totally up in his head and wants to over analyze everything... then it's shut up and train time.
As for the "why are you concerned with figuring it out?" question, well, because that's your job.