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but i thought it assumed that the other person comitted fully to every attack then deals with them with circular movements. if a person jabs or kicks or whatever then the techniques fall short, since the other person gives you nothing to use against them.
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I've seen that too, but I think that's tree hugger Aikido. I know Aikidoka that make things happen using irimi and atemi, your choice is to commit or they're going to try to beat the crap out of you using atemi and lock you anyway. I don't see any reason why a jab would give Aikidoka trouble, though it does seem to. It may be that they need to train against it more. But if a guy jabs, tenken and ma-ai should work the same way as it does against a more commited attack.
It's not so much the circular movement as using the circular movement to take the others center. It's confusing the movement with the objective. At least that's the objective an Aikidoka friend told me.
