View Single Post Old 06-24-2010, 09:13 AM   #100 Location: ATL
Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 846 Re: Ki Aikido - quote from
Gleason Sensei  Christian Moses wrote: View Post You're still
thinking of them as 'techniques'. Like I would apply a certain
technique to shut someone down. This is more about changing how
your body works. You can't really shut it off any more than you
can make yourself taller (a bit of an exaggeration, but not by
much). When I first met Ark he talked about creating the martial
body (developing the frame) before one could learn any bujutsu.
When we started doing Aunkai training, we (my whole dojo)
basically took about two years off from doing waza. Most dojos
are not going to do that. Now that we've come back to waza,
we're having to rework how we do most of our techniques, because
the old stuff (aside from the judo kihon) just doesn't work on
people in the dojo anymore. no, I'm not thinking of it as
techniques at all and it's not about "turning it off".  When
you're doing pushout with some