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Old 07-01-2008, 07:01 PM   #234
Kevin Leavitt
 
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Re: Aikido™ and Aiki…do. Where are we at?

Rob wrote:

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Besides which, if I told you you need to drop the intercostal muscles, while using a ball of muscle 3 inches below the belly button, to push it back against the lower back, inflate the illial psoas, then push the pressure up through the upper back...in order to perform a strike, would it help you at all?
No...let me think about this a second....ummmm...NO It doesn't help.

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The reason why a lot of the exercises are formulated the way they are, is because most people don't have any control over the parts that are needed in order to pull off these skills. So you have to develop awareness of these parts, condition them, then you can start to talk about "pull here, use this" etc. Otherwise it's all just Greek.
Yes.

I also agree with the whole technique thing.

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