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Old 04-22-2010, 06:26 PM   #7
Janet Rosen
 
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Re: Aikido For Dummies: Desperation, period.

You cannot walk into a party where everybody is speaking Portuguese and, because you know some Italian, expect to join in the conversation. You may memorize some phrases, but at some point you need to start with words, then sentences, finally paragraphs. And you need to be able to both speak AND listen to the language.

Aikido dojo mostly don't call what they do "kata" and the black belts at your dojo did you a disservice by trying to "apply" a technique to you using muscle instead of backing up and explaining the rationale for fully cooperative kata-based training. If your body does not have a chance to learn and practice over and over again SUCCESSFULLY the proper building blocks of each attack and each technique (and yes, successfully for a beginner means no resistence), then you may do something in randori but it won't be aikido.

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