Re: Aiki-Ken vs reality
Well it is the egg and chicken story
Aki-ken is there to enhance you body movement but to get the enhancement you need to understand ken enough to make the it really worth your while.
If we take the 1st kumi tachi
Starting from the cross/bind
Tori raise to cut
Uke thrust to the belly/chest, does not matter as long as the point is bellow the shoulder of tori, which is open and in range and move to the side to finish the gut cut and get out of the way of the tori strike. The gut cut finishes in an ox guard which provide protection against tori vertical or either circular strike and open tori ura side.
(In German fencing this is changing through,
Tori gather back and control the centre with his sword. That blocks any of uke possible thrust and open up a direct line of attack for uke
The only option left to tori is renzuko to the outside, to create a new centreline an attacking uke outside, forcing uke to move as the out side is vulnerable and that the attack gets tori outside of uke thrusting range.
Uke counter cuts, setting up and other thrust
Tori renzuke the other way to escape the thrust and take advantage of uke perceived new direction to cut from behind uke's cut
Uke counter cut to win either with the cut or a thrust.
It is exactly like for the open hand practice, torri need to try to get uke, whilst staying within his owns space and not over committing, otherwise it does not really make sense.
phil
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