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Old 06-04-2005, 03:19 PM   #6
Kevin Kelly
Dojo: Aikido of Reno
Location: Fernley, NV
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: Highest Level Martial Arts and Aikido

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Mike Sigman wrote:
There is another famous martial art comment which may be in Aikido, but I've never seen it published (that I can remember... someone correct me if I'm wrong, please): movement approaches stillness. What this means is that first you practice with large movements, but as you get better and better your actual movement approaches the ideal of appearing to be no movement. If you think about it, whether it's voiced or not, this is also an unavoidable development in Aikido and many of the higher-level practitioners exhibit this "movements become smaller" development of technique.
I never actually heard the comment "movement approaches stillness" but we are routinely told about everything else you have stated in this paragraph.
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