View Single Post
Old 01-28-2015, 08:42 AM   #9
lbb
Location: Massachusetts
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,202
United_States
Offline
Re: Aikido: Striking all along?

Quote:
Hansel Wong wrote: View Post
Which is the point, we should see aikido as a striking art and train towards that.
Why? Why should we "see aikido as a striking art"? I've trained in striking arts; aikido is not really like them except, perhaps, in a rather intellectualized sense (and at that level, it's equally "like" many other things as much as a "striking art"). How does it help our training to force aikido into this "striking art" label? Why not just leave the labels out -- it's not as if you get extra points for them, after all -- and just seeing aikido as what it is, without labels?
  Reply With Quote