| I know, the question is a bit bogus, as one should be | | | | bring the arms up to catch the elbow, shove your |
| comparing arts such as Karate and Aikido merely so | | | | shoulder in and go with the flow. Go ahead, try this |
| as to make them compliment each other. Thus, with | | | | technical adaptation, even gaze at a little youtube to |
| that statement made, let us discuss how the fist | | | | get the idea of the geometries involved, and you are |
| should wiggle into the glove. No pow and bam, just | | | | going to find an instant blend of karate, even the |
| an honest, up front viewpoint for your edification and | | | | hardest of karate, like Kyukoshinkai, with even the |
| enlightenment. Karate is supposed to be straight line, | | | | purest forms of Aikido, even the soft form |
| and Aikido is supposed to be the circle. Yet, if on | | | | espoused by Morihei Uyeshiba. Now, the above |
| looks at Karate, let alone the martial arts, one will see | | | | technique being examined, the glaring weakness of |
| that perfection of geometric figure is loose, at best. | | | | Karate is that it is limited, in most modern classes, to |
| If Karate could actually adhere to the perfect line, if | | | | the fact of destruction. It has been altered to win |
| one examines how the bones, joints, muscles and so | | | | the tournament, beat the other guy for a trophy, |
| on function, the body would probably explode, or, at | | | | and gloves are used for more violence, and fighting is |
| least collapse upon itself. On the other hand, if Aikido | | | | done for fighting sake. But, I have been guilty of |
| tried to adhere to the perfect circle and only the | | | | shouting this from the mountain tops, while there is |
| perfect circle, except in the most theoretical of | | | | an art to destruction, the true art is in control. Thus, |
| philosophies, the art would not work. And, to be | | | | a study of the pure art of Aikido, with the things I |
| honest, Aikido is not the usual choice for down and | | | | have told you here, will enable you to confront the |
| dirty combat. While Aikido is pure and wonderful, and | | | | fiercest violence, and alter that violence into the |
| can evolve the practitioner in very spiritual senses, | | | | most magical and simplest of workable techniques. |
| one should use a martial art like Karate to enter the | | | | You kick, you punch, then you simply embrace the |
| fight, then look to aikido to control the fight. Think | | | | arms and learn how to go with the flow. A last word |
| about it this way, a fight is the collapse of distance. | | | | about all this, don't mistake the throws of judo or |
| The length of the arm, and the circle being made, the | | | | jujitsu for Aikido techniques. While techniques of the |
| lever of the extend arm is too long. However, if you | | | | ju variety are wonderful, we want to move from |
| want magic, use karate to kick, punch, find yourself | | | | hard to soft complete, and a certain amount of hard |
| on the inside as the distance collapses, and then use | | | | is still involved in ju techniques. That all said, I wish |
| a shorter lever. Instead of stepping in and trying to | | | | you the best with your new art, and a new art it |
| make a three foot arm circle into a wrist lock, try a | | | | is...karido...aikate...your choice. |
| middle block, slide in and begin turning. As you turn, | | | | |