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02-25-2010, 07:23 PM
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Dojo: Zanshin Kai
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Witchcraft
How is it that when I'm totally relaxed I can easily move people resisting with all their strength?
Last edited by Ketsan : 02-25-2010 at 07:25 PM.
Reason: Can't speeel
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02-25-2010, 07:55 PM
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Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Witchcraft
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02-25-2010, 09:52 PM
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Location: Orlando, FL
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Re: Witchcraft
For the same reason that flowing water is often more irresistible than ice. Being relaxed allows the energy to be dynamic.
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02-25-2010, 11:50 PM
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Dojo: Aikido of Fresno
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Re: Witchcraft
They must be using their strength wrong.
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02-26-2010, 08:26 AM
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Location: Kawasaki, Kanagawa
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Re: Witchcraft
The trick is that using "all of your strength" is actually a very poor way to "resist."
It may be a good way to loosen a stubborn lugnut or lift an extremely heavy object, but against a force that can shift and move around it's a poor strategy.
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02-26-2010, 09:23 AM
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Dojo: Aikido of Reno
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Re: Witchcraft
Quote:
Cliff Judge wrote:
The trick is that using "all of your strength" is actually a very poor way to "resist."
It may be a good way to loosen a stubborn lugnut or lift an extremely heavy object, but against a force that can shift and move around it's a poor strategy.
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And even then I'm always a proponent of a bit of penetrating oil and a cheater bar. And as for a heavy object, I'll take Archimedes' advice. Technically the same force but I get to spread the work load lout.
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02-26-2010, 11:15 AM
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Dojo: Oregon Ki Society
Location: Tigard, Oregon
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Re: Witchcraft
Principle of non-dissension working properly maybe.
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Plus Ki
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02-26-2010, 11:52 AM
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Dojo: Tsubaki Kannagara Jinja Aikidojo; Himeji Shodokan Dojo
Location: Renton
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Re: Witchcraft
Quote:
Alex Lawrence wrote:
How is it that when I'm totally relaxed I can easily move people resisting with all their strength?
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Telekinetic super-Ki? How you can move while "totally" relaxed is beyond me!
Sorry couldn't resist!
When you're relaxed forces settle into the ground more readily? ...as opposed to being allowed to move more laterally? I wonder if it has to do with what was mentioned in another thread about being gravity-based organisms. We're naturally quite strong in the vertical since we regularly hold up under quite a bit of constant downward pressure. I wonder if relaxing allows the spine to channel more of the incoming force downward then...or something near to that anyway...
Last edited by mathewjgano : 02-26-2010 at 12:06 PM.
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Gambarimashyo!
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02-26-2010, 12:08 PM
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Re: Witchcraft
vid?
maybe you are finding the lack of your 'muscular effort' is helping you in 'getting out of your own way' and as a result; you are guided into the conduit/channel/alignment where you are not directly challenging their muscular strength...and hence...being guided into the efficient line of countering their structure with your own.
thisisnotwitchcraft my friend. isn't that part of good Aikido? non-contention?
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02-26-2010, 05:20 PM
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Location: CA
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Re: Witchcraft
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Clark Bateman wrote:
For the same reason that flowing water is often more irresistible than ice. Being relaxed allows the energy to be dynamic.
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Water transformed into ice destroys granite and ice in the form of a glacier grinds mountains flat. Liquid water can be used to cut steel. Steam can to wicked things as well. Water in its various states is amazing stuff not to be triffled with.
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03-02-2010, 07:20 PM
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Re: Witchcraft
Quote:
Alex Lawrence wrote:
How is it that when I'm totally relaxed I can easily move people resisting with all their strength?
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He's a witch!!!!! Burn him's I's says!!!!
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MM
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03-02-2010, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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Re: Witchcraft
same differnce between a brick and a wet sponge of equal weight
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03-03-2010, 08:28 AM
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Dojo: Wokingham Aikido
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Re: Witchcraft
Resisting with all your strength can only be done in one direction.
Relax and move in a different direction
Ruth
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03-03-2010, 10:58 AM
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Dojo: Iwae Dojo
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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Re: Witchcraft
Quote:
Alex Lawrence wrote:
How is it that when I'm totally relaxed I can easily move people resisting with all their strength?
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If you were totally relaxed, you'd be lying on the ground not moving.
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Tarik Ghbeish
Jiyūshin-ryū AikiBudō - Iwae Dojo
MASAKATSU AGATSU -- "The true victory of self-mastery."
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