Thread: Defining Kokyu
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Old 07-15-2005, 03:02 PM   #14
Mike Sigman
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Re: Defining Kokyu

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James Young wrote:
Since my experience is limited in other martial arts outside of aikido, I didn't expect to see a karate teacher to emphasize kokyu so much, but he definitely has a level of kokyu mastery that most aikido teachers don't have, let alone karate teachers.
That's exactly the point. There's too much control on the tap of knowledge for ki and kokyu development in Aikido... and it winds up making "most aikido teachers" look like chumps in the martial arts world.

Mike
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