Welcome Turboman nice to see you again. !!
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Steven Seagal
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Posts: 1
From: Los Angeles California
Registered: Jan 2001
posted February 03, 2001 08:25 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Originally posted by Turboman:
With all due respect Aikilove, I must disagree. When uke grabs your fist and attacks (with 100% weight towards you, your center) you should FEEL this and NOT with your mind and thinking, "hey let's do a kote geashi". This might work to some extent, but it is not Ueshiba aikido. When you feel where the attacker (uke) goes towards you, you move with him (or her) and you might use any technique which your body (after lots of training) decides to use at that time, in which the whole just merely becomes a MOVEMENT, and the technique is a PART of that movement. When you ask someone who doesn't know a thing about aikido, if he witnessed the technique, he probably would reply, "what technique?, I only saw two people move!"
Mr. Seagal: THIS is a very important subject. What do you think of this?
Thanx.
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Thank you for your interest and questions.
In answer to your Question, (if I understand it correctly), there are several different scenarios. In general it depends on the attack, i.e., if the attacker is flying at you quite rapidly as opposed being more stationary.
In my opinion, if the attacker is coming in rapidly, it is easier (and more appropriate) to use his movement and keep him moving into a position of his own neutralization. If he is mostly stationary, you (meaning ”Tori”) must move in and would have to do more of the “moving”.
In a more perfect world the attacker enters and the “Tori” uses the “Uke’s” mind and body momentum in order to enhance the timing, space, and place of least resistance.
This is, I think, what you are seeing most of the time in my films with particular respect to the “Kotegieshi”.
I hope this sheds some light on the subject.
Thank you-
In Oneness,
S.S.
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