This month we are going to look at “What is aiki?”
Sensi Stevens will address that question next Monday.
Some of the other students here have agreed to give their thoughts on the subject and will be updating the site with their thoughts when we send them in.
In the meantime, tell us what your thoughts are below.
OR come out and discuss it with us!
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I think that Aiki is being able to control/throw uke without relying on uke’s co-operation. I also think that it is being able to control uke without using pain or brute force.
Hey, MOE!
Just minutes before receiving your e-mail, Rita and I were wondering how you guys are doing! I said I’m going to send Moe an e-mail, find out what’s going on in Oh-HO-HO.
I take it the knees are good – hope everything, everybody are also (good).
I went to the website and was very impressed, too. I’ve been doing only a little judo or martial arts in general, working on energy systems for our place and fortifying us against the mess government has us in. Rita’s on a diet and weight loss program, such that I’ve decided to start her on a little Aikido and Tai Chi. I’d like to get her a good DVD or tape depicting good basis irimi and tenkan movement and gripping techniques, together with shihonage, kotegaeshi, and iriminage. Can you suggest one/
Anyway, we hope you stay in touch.
By the way, have you heard for Chris? We haven’t in some time, his “Blackberry” (I guess – I don’t know one of the damned things from another) address is disconnected (or whatever that might be these days), and I can’t seem to find his other e-mail address. It occurs to me as I write this to try his FaceBook account, but . .
The U.S.’ obsession with the purely self-defense aspect of the martial arts can be compared to a sprinter training for his event by exercizing only one leg. The martial arts competitor who concentrates only upon competition and the physical concerns so related is, while perhaps to some lesser degree similar.
The great Iowa wrestler and coach Dan Gable once observed that the mind always quits before the body does. Anyone who has participated in the most extreme form of personal combat, the gunfight, will have learned that he is right.
‘Nuff said, I trust.
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