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- From: ftit@engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Aikido vs. kicks
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:05:21 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- In article <1k265dINNjaf@pith.uoregon.edu> toman@bovine.uoregon.edu (Jay toman) writes:
- |In article <20037@mindlink.bc.ca> Robert_Cocking@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Cocking) writes:
- |>Having read a few books on Aikido and being very new to the budo, I have not
- |>found any defense against kicks.
- |
- |The theory (I've never played with it myself) is roughly that there are
- |straight attacks (shomen-uchi,mune-tsuki, etc. ) and there are round attacks
- |(yokomen-uchi,kata-dori, etc.) and that you can treat the attacks in these
- |categories as the same (more or less). It doesn't matter that much which
- |is the offending body part, the principle employed is the same, e.g., you
- |would treat a roundhouse kick like it was a yokomen-uchi. I would guess
- |that the reality is you would need an extremely good grasp of the principles
- |involved in order to get this to work.
-
- You know, this sounds a lot like the descriptions of escrima that
- Comrade Khan posted once. He described the fundamental technical
- principle of his art as, the response to an attack depends on the angle
- from which it comes more than what its exact nature is.
-
- I'm not experienced in my own art to see something this general about
- it, but I'm sure some higher understanding of this nature exists. How
- about the rest of you? Is this one of those places where all the
- diverse martial arts converge? Is this a small part of... Greenoch?
-
- | J. Toman
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