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Old 08-28-2014, 08:00 AM   #286
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Re: Demonstrating aiki, demontrating aikido.Same thing ?

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David Skaggs wrote: View Post
IHTBF. Take a trip to Florida and visit the Big Green Drum dojo an feel what Eric is talking about.

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I have. The Pensacola people are good friends and this is running dangerously close to requiring people to address things better left private. BGD has its own version of aikido. Erick is working on his own version of aikido. I cannot say whether his methodology will ever cross into what I call aiki training, but I respect that he is looking and I respect the people he is working with. It is not what Dan does and if he arrives to that place it will be via a path that is not Dan's design. I say God-speed and over the next 20 years I plan to tease Erick about taking the hard way up the mountain.

Second, I would argue that aiki training is not relegated to the "warm up exercises." In fact, I would advocate that aiki training is the entirety of our training, broken up by paired training to validate our movement. FWIW.

Jon Reading
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