Re-check your assumptions
NOTE: aiki's not my thing, but I play with aiki guys occasionally.
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Originally posted by sc_guy
If Aikido is right then everybody else are wrong.
- One hand can do the locking.
Aiki guys mostly use two hands to lock.
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- One hand can do the throwing.
Aiki guys mostly use both hands when throwing.
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- Throwing require no leg moves.
Umm, aiki bunnies move around pretty much all the time. It's that whole 180 degree circle thing.
Oh, and they'll do leg traps and sweeps as well.
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- Kicking and punchings do not exist.
Honestly, I've never seen an aiki guy kick. I've have seen them hit. The better ones know have reasonable skill with it, but too often they use that goofy downward strike.
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- You don't need "entering", he will always come to you.
From what I can tell, aiki's basic principles are entering and turning (tenkan and irimi).
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- Person sit on the floor can reach the person's neck who stands on his feet and throw him.
A broken clock is right twice a day. . .I hate that nonsense as well.
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- When somebody runs toward you, all you need is to bend down in front of him and he would fall over your head.
Against a committed opponent, I don't think this is an awful idea. I'll grant you it looks silly from the perspective of someone who's trained.
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- Aikido can bring you to a spirit level and allow you to speak to God.
It's officially 12 hours later.
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Not that you've really named any of them, but I think most aiki practice has a coupla problems:
1) many of the techniques are unpracticable in any sort of randori. So they often don't do any (NOTE: I've never seen tomiki, but I guess they've remedied this).
2) as a corollary to #1, it conditions people to fall over at the drop of a hat. We have aiki people come into our jujutsu dojo periodically. It's pretty remarkable to do standup or newaza with them and have *almost all* of them do the ki society dive (tm) at the first sign of a kote gaishe.
3) finally, there's a self-selection problem. Aiki gets alot of the people who have similar mindsets to a good portion of the people in the internal systems--it's where the new age flakes go.
I have a couple of on-topic questions
Can anyone here tell me what it's like to have multiple personality disorder?
Does anyone else love Jekyll and Hyde?