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Re: What's that with Aikiken and Aikijo?
One of the main problems I find with buki waza is my own lack of understanding about why certain targets are chosen, why certain postures are adopted, what the real reasoning is behind some of the movements and flow. Generally, people don't notice that shite is supposed to purposely give an opening that makes a certain attack the ONLY attack that makes sense, and often shite doesn't really provide such an opening in their posture (knee being closer to uke than head for instance). First we learn the basic movement (put foot here) in the kata, then we progress to understanding the why. Problem is, we often never really get to the why.
Ron
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