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Temujin · 04-04-2003, 05:09 PM

Wow, Bri, you are certainly testy today. Ueshiba's very publicized spiritual awakening (where he realized aikido was love) happened to him just after he sparred a kendo guy for like 10 minutes. He was unarmed and dodged all of the kendo guy's strikes. I've read that story in a dozen different places so it might have a grain of truth to it.

Anyway, yes all MA do the flowing thing. I've boxed for a while and that is all about flow. Carlos Machado flows effortlessly on the ground. My point was, and I should have said this better, was that using a persons' resistance against him is something the softer styles do well by necessity. Strikers user more feints to set up strikes, grapplers do too but not in the same way, imho. I mean, softer styles have less of a choice about how they use someone's energy against them.

I have used aikido against and attacker, btw. In college I was studying under a JJJ/wing chun guy. The drill we had been working on was to watch someone's feet. When the feet are side by side, the person is weak forward/backward but strong side to side UNLESS he is moving, then it is opposite. Same for foot in front stance. By watching someone's feet you can push them all around the room. THis is what I did against my bigger brother when he tried to get mean with me. I shoved him all over the room and into things until he gave up. He was such a punk back then. Anyway, if I had hit him, he'd have never let me forget about it.

04-04-2003, 05:09 PM	#29 (permalink)
Temujin Novice Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Dallas Posts: 14 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	wow Wow, Bri, you are certainly testy today. Ueshiba's very publicized spiritual awakening (where he realized aikido was love) happened to him just after he sparred a kendo guy for like 10 minutes. He was unarmed and dodged all of the kendo guy's strikes. I've read that story in a dozen different places so it might have a grain of truth to it. Anyway, yes all MA do the flowing thing. I've boxed for a while and that is all about flow. Carlos Machado flows effortlessly on the ground. My point was, and I should have said this better, was that using a persons' resistance against him is something the softer styles do well by necessity. Strikers user more feints to set up strikes, grapplers do too but not in the same way, imho. I mean, softer styles have less of a choice about how they use someone's energy against them. I have used aikido against and attacker, btw. In college I was studying under a JJJ/wing chun guy. The drill we had been working on was to watch someone's feet. When the feet are side by side, the person is weak forward/backward but strong side to side UNLESS he is moving, then it is opposite. Same for foot in front stance. By watching someone's feet you can push them all around the room. THis is what I did against my bigger brother when he tried to get mean with me. I shoved him all over the room and into things until he gave up. He was such a punk back then. Anyway, if I had hit him, he'd have never let me forget about it.