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Old 11-06-2014, 01:51 PM   #16
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Re: YouTube: Kotegaeshi - Basic and Variations

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Mary Eastland wrote: View Post
It is a demonstration video. I really enjoyed it. I seldom watched whole videos. You cannot judge martial validity by a demonstration video.
What you CAN do, is you can observe that uke is not really attacking nage with intent to kill them. And nage is not responding in a manner that would have been wise or effective if uke had attacked with the intent to kill.

Pretty much every second of footage I have seen of Osensei or any of his students is lacking in these departments too!

But what you are judging is actually the people doing the demonstrations, and their teachers, and the combination of the way training is done at their dojo and the expectations of their instructors that led to whatever it is you don't like in the video.

Which is a thing that people do. Maybe we ought to view footage of the old greats from the same angle, when we form our ideas of what Aikido should and should not be.
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