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Old 07-31-2011, 12:31 PM   #25
Lee Salzman
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Re: Aikido is Elbow Power

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On this note, I really agree. It sounds more like the use of a parking brake when doing stop-and-go up a hill in a manual transmission than a continual engine engagement. I've watched a lot of Shioda videos and I just don't see him doing that back leg thing.
I don't mean to dispute anyone's direct experience in the Yoshinkan. It's just, yeah, when you look at videos of Shioda, his legs are always moving like live wires, springing and pivoting off the balls of his feet like he was dancing on smoldering lava. I just would like to understand the exercises and why they look so different from how Shioda moves in the end.

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Hey Lee, did you get my email reply to you? Check your spam filter..
Possibly got lost in the deluge, man. See PM.