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Kit

I believe you are right in this statement. Obviously, if someone was presenting a very clear threat, I would not have ignored it.

In my previous posts I tried to point out, that the nature...

Kit

In normal circumstances without the girls, I had an "internal radar", alerting me to any violent interaction in the area. Often noticing youths as they started thir infights and so, from...

Mostly, I agree.






However, many things in the description and perception of the situation are difficult to capture, and are also culturally dependent.

When one of my daughters cries I...

As a proud father of twins, almost two years old:





From experiance, running after each of my twins to keep them both out of trouble + keeping their stroller is often more difficult then...

Would you have asked the same question of your own system founder ?
What made him more legitimate then todays new inventors ? Didn't he get any conformists who told him"there is nothing new under...

I doubt it is a matter of training, I was not in fighting unit, nor were most of my friends. I do not recall having even a single lesson of Krav-Maga in the army, only some very nasic Fire-Arms...

Sorry to burst in, and from a different sub-forum normally, but the main question I have for you is:
"Was this really what happend?"
The above take could be an exact description, though in such a...

This is one of the most difficult questions to answer.

As a friend once pointed out to me:
A musician asked Mozart: "Am I ready to write Sonets at 25 yrs old?"
Mozart: "No, you should grow up...

I know I might not have agreed to my own answer some years ago, but in my opion, you are going on the wrong track.

Aikido is not designed to learn in a short time.


Thewre are no Aikido...

The person best qualified should handle the situation. Note that one can manage the situation while another actually gives care to the wounded person.

So Sensei could manage the members to give...

"Aggressive", "soft", "hard", "effective"

We use so many words, for describing our Aikido, each with different connotations, positive and negative depending on the person.

Getting impressions...

A clarification.

I think you should be very careful in terms of terminology. Here, in Israel, most people are not authorized to neither carry no own a gun as private citizens, almost all of those ...

Not a gun expert, rather more of a simplton in this subject.

But I guess this is the reason I noticed the most important factor is missing. Buy a gun you will find comfortable to carry daily.

A...

Some of you seem to place me on the “gun banning group”, well, you are missing the point. Coming from another country with an utterly different culture with regard to guns, my views on the subject of...

Your anecdote actually strengthens my claim. The security guard who intervened in this case was much better trained then your average civilian is required to be. Only she responded, and not a whole...

If you wish to create a "gun free zone" you need active protection, not passive. It means not only a metal detector, but a guard enforcing it's usage, and some control room able to call additional...

Not an expert on these issues and happy this phenomenon has not really arrived here yet. But I do have some points to make:






Give a little thought to your statements. Had there been many...

O-T again.

I was in Japan once, for about a month, most of which I used to practice in Korindo Aikido. I had one short visit to a tkanauchi ryu dojo in Kyoto.
I loved every minute of that trip,...

Dear Prof. Goldsbury

If you are looking for topics to discuss about Aikido. I would say the role of Uke is one such issue, Examples for topics which were raised here and at aikiweb very often:
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Thanks, this is extremly helpful, it actually shows more Kata than I am currently working on (I thought the first chapter of Omotonotachi, the Kodachi and the first chapter of the Nito to be a lot)....

Tim

I believe in finding a teacher first, and the M.A. after. I was lucky enough to find a great teacher at 17, before I understood much about M.A. Learning under him is a pleasure, and he still...

Hi all

Thanks for the advices.





You are right, Hirai did not study Katori, but one of his students (Shihan Shono Seiki) did, and the some of his studies has also been included in our...

Can anyone provide links to Katori Shinto ryu Nito and Kodachi Katas?

As part of my studies of Korindo Aikido (a Gendai M.A.) I have learned these Kata (as well as 4 chapters of Omoto-Notachi)....

The key in all martial arts is to be suffciently better then the other guy. I doubt FMA have a different asnwer then the above. Given a knife, which provides the attacker with a huge advantage, the...

Thanks for the answer. the approach I have been taught is the same, and from the same pedagogical reasons.


We have the same (or very similar) yonkyou waza in korindo aikido, and we even use the...