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Old 08-07-2011, 11:13 AM   #16
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Smile Re: What kind of "spiraling" does Aikido have?

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Mike Sigman wrote: View Post
Lynn, you're talking about application/techniques. I'm talking about basic movement within and prior to the consideration of application/techniques.

The whole point of movement like "reeling silk" is to train linear jin to all points within a movement. There are 4 basic directions of jin: Up, Down, Away from the body, Toward the body. What "winding" or "reeling silk" practice is supposed to do is imbue the linear jin infinitely throughout a movement, primarily. Secondarily it is used as one of the supplements to power generation, but there's more to that than is commonly known.

FWIW

Mike Sigman
Dear Mike,
One of the problems I have when I read this type of blog is the vocabulary used .What I mean is that in some cases the 'vocabulary 'is Chinese related terms.Now as an aikidoka I can use the general Japanese terminology to discuss issues and concepts.
The fact that you rarely if ever state what eg reeling silk , jin is in
terms that I can relate to, is the problem for me.
With no pun intended you might as well be talking Chinese .
Cheers, Joe.
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