“Our mental representation of a man attacking or defending is a visual process based on the conception that we have of the human body when it is resting but this static vision is fundamentally flawed. Even though the human body is indeed a composed of a torso fitted with four limbs and a head in the way that has been immortalised in so many statues around the world, this representation does not translate the reality of the dynamic aptitudes of our body. This is however by this motion that we must represent our adversary.”
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…the mind gets overwhelmed trying to visualize this in real time. hence the need of training. but even within training there is the commonly conceived dichotomy of attack and defense. as aikido goes beyond that, the mind is REALLY lost and training is the only path forward.
“In Aikido, the attacker dashes forward, directed in one single direction, until he looses his balance.”
What if the attacker does not comply with this method of attack but chooses any of a number of other numerous methods of attack?
What happens top “aikido” then?
Answer…you better know more than just Aikido for Self Defense.