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- From: tac@cs.brown.edu (Ted A. Camus)
- Subject: Re: Aikido vs. kicks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.162255.10837@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:22:55 GMT
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- David James Alexander Hanley <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
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- > Dealing with kicks is not much different from dealing with punches.
- >Just imagine it as a lower, harder blow. However, you don't want to block
- >it. Blocking kicks is one of the reasons I left karate :). Evade and
- >step inside and get a grasp of the leg. Once you have the leg there is
- >a whole range of nasty stuff you can do. Yonkajo and Sihonage to the
- >ankle come immediately to mind.
- > Remember though, aikido is not about fighting. It is better to learn
- >to avoid the kick than to stop it. This is the essence.
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- I agree with your ideas, with one exception - what you are describing
- is not so much treating the leg as a punch, but as a sword. I.e.,
- big and heavy, generally committed attacks, evade rather than block,
- avoid the sword/leg and then do something nasty with the rest of their
- body (e.g. grab an arm, iriminage, etc.). It may be possible to grab
- the leg, but don't count on it. If they know what they're doing, they
- won't leave it out there, they'll lean forward (generally with a strike)
- and put their weight on it, making it heavy quickly and hard to hold on
- to. In general, front kicks ~= shomen's, side kicks ~= tsuki's, and
- roundhouses ~= yokomen's.
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- There is also the major bonus that uke is immobile while kicking.
- Timing is important, but that's what we've been practicing all along,
- haven't we?
-
- -- Ted --
-
- p.s. My apologies for that obviously-forged posting of "mine"
- concerning this "Greenoch" (damn computer crackers!).
- I have never heard the term before in my life !
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