Nice Aikido example outside the dojo
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Dale Houser
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Nice Aikido example outside the dojo
Who knew Ovechkin studied TMA?
The martial arts begin and end with respect...
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Bill Glasheen
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Thanks for posting this, Dale. Great stuff! 
Every time I hear some Uechi teacher talk about the tenshin exercises as being about facing a partner in a new direction, it's like the following to my brain.
Not that it can't work that way... But it totally misses the point.
Nice video, by the way. It's good control of the line of force - no matter which art wants to claim it as "their own." And it drives the style Nazis wild when someone sees it in their own art.
Shelly Dunn (a Mid-Atlantic Uechi instructor) did this to an unruly bar patron once when on the job as a bouncer. The bigger they come at you, the harder they fall. Nothing like getting slammed by high speed wall.
By the way, I'll give him a shodan just for being able to pull that off on the ice with skates. That is absolutely masterful.
- Bill
Try Uechi example as well. Look at the footwork; what do you see? Look at the double-handed thrust; what do you see?Dale Houser wrote:
Nice Aikido example
Every time I hear some Uechi teacher talk about the tenshin exercises as being about facing a partner in a new direction, it's like the following to my brain.
Not that it can't work that way... But it totally misses the point.
Nice video, by the way. It's good control of the line of force - no matter which art wants to claim it as "their own." And it drives the style Nazis wild when someone sees it in their own art.
Shelly Dunn (a Mid-Atlantic Uechi instructor) did this to an unruly bar patron once when on the job as a bouncer. The bigger they come at you, the harder they fall. Nothing like getting slammed by high speed wall.
By the way, I'll give him a shodan just for being able to pull that off on the ice with skates. That is absolutely masterful.
- Bill
