GrahamB wrote:No, it's me that's interested. Mike can speak for himself, but I'm pretty sure he thinks it's all smoke and mirrors - a key misunderstanding.
You're not only speaking FOR him, you're using his exact words. That's just creepy, and kind of sad.
When a guy who hosted Mike and had Mike stay at his house ended up hosting me later and aggreeing with me...
Mike insulted his own host calling him...
"A useful idiot." when several of his legate forum perks ended up meeting new and training with me and THEY ended up disagreeing with him?
He threw them off his forum.
Later, Mike told an aikido Shihan that only 4 or 5 men on earth knows what he knows and they are all in China.
I wonder, what does...he... call you, his latest group of people who argue for him?
Is he as insulting and dismissive of you? Or is that fragile personality only manifest when you disagree?
I'd quite like to know how you explain it. Oh, and on a technical point, it's not power going across the body that's the issue (obviously a jin path can be made from the hand to either leg, that goes without saying), it's two opposing spirals at the same time in the body that is.
That goes without saying?????Oh, that's hilarious!!! Really rich!
Cross body use was most certainly an issue with Sigman (and another Japanese internal teacher) for almost ten years. Look it up. Post after post, year after year on Aikiweb and E-budo. There are thousands of people who all read them. Diagrams and models of three axis movement published, passed out at seminars, argued about....
Mike stating categorically that
nothing crossed the body....
Mike putting up diagrams from the classics but failing to put up (or understand) the complete model.
Until it was pointed out to him, over and over, (from other sources, not just me) that many taiji Masters agreed, in both written interviews and on film.... with what I had continuously argued all along.
So now it's okay?????
How cute, Graham!
With this topic?
I don't have the time to...yet again..debate something that every beginning student should already know. I will say that it is fascinatiing to watch people move, and hear what they say. They think laterally/they move laterally. A big flaw. Master level guys teach against that as well. But to each their own.....