Bodywork wrote:Hey, you are the one who keeps bringing up aiki as if you understand it. And aikido as if you can do it well.
You are the one who brought up aikido as:
*devestatingly effective
Or
*they address existential absurdity.
1. That's not hard to understand.
2. Your claims are not hard to understand.
But there are no ends "to a spectrum" you either do a martial art or you don't.
*You do a health movement
*Or you do Martial art (or sport)
*Or you do both
But you then should never claim your woo woo, airy fairy, descriptions of what you know, has any practical credibility AS A MARTIAL ART.
Martial arts are a tough field for discussion, Rich. Theory must lead to practical method and ability or you will be called on it.
For many people their theories end up as just pure fantasy, utter bullshit, false, not real.
We need to all change that. We need to call each other on the bullshit. Enough already.
If ya want to just do woo woo stuff, that's fine. But don't claim its devastating martial skill.
Thee, one and only thing to make aikido truly powerful is IP/aiki. Without that its semi cooperative, low percentage jujutsu - not that there's anything wrong with that- is just simply wrong to claim that, THAT, is in any way "devastatingly effective."
Be who you are with some sense of balance: humility, confidence born of testing yourself, and respect for those who truly have been tested and have the suffered damage to know what they know and know what they can and cannot do. That includes all manner of arts and sports.
Everything else hurts the reputation of the arts in general.
It is the number one reason internal power or soft arts, get a well deserved bad rap. People who are full of shit, and have never been tested, keep talking like they have.
all I know is that my study and practice of aikido done me good when attacked twice, unprovoked, and does me good when facing the absurdity existence..
I myself was surprised by the training kicking in, like auto pilot, I could only reflect upon it..
would concepts of aiki made me any safer than the maximum safety experienced.
Whats woo - woo about existentialism and the absurdity life..
yours
Rich