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Very cool Porter! I did Aikido for awhile, but I'm officially all Aikidoed out now. Hurt myself one too many times, and finally thought "hm--I'm not really enjoying this so much". I do have enormous respect for the martial art and those who practice it though.
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Judo is a sport. Aikido is not. To make it a safe sport, Professor Kano removed from Judo all of the techniques that could cause injury when done full force and full speed.
As a result, Aikdio has a lot of joint manipulations, arm bars, wrist locks, etc. that Judo doesn't have.
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Cool. Joint manipulation is the quickest route to injury in many cases. Good for defense. Bad for athletic careers.
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A quick tidbit -- professor Kano was the first person to use colored belts to indicate skill level -- he just had white and black. Soon after, Gichin Funakoshi adopted the same thing for his Shotokan Karate that he started teaching in Japan. We get both the colored belts and the martial arts "gi" or outfit from Kano. In many ways, he is the father of modern martial arts.
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Noemon -- this is getting freaky. I've got to find something I like that you don't, or visa-versa.
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Hey, you guys are wearing hakama! I didn't know there was a martial art where they actually wear the hakama. Jes makes his own. Posts: 6367 | Registered: Aug 2003
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Porter, you may have just started the one thread that will force my husband to join Hatrack. Let's see. We'll have to wait til he gets home.
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BTW, a lot of the more traditional Japanese martial arts like iaido, kendo, kenjutsu, jojitsu, kyudo, etc. all wear hakama.
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I don't know...I think he just likes to. Plus he's really tall and he just assumed if he found some they wouldn't fit, like all his other skirts, I mean pants. Posts: 6367 | Registered: Aug 2003
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Wow, that's an awesome picture. You know, it's kind of a funny coincidence...I'm seriously thinking about joining the aikido club here at ASU. I'm a little nervous about it since I'm clumsy and out of shape, but I'm hoping that this will take care of both of those.
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I've done a bit of Aikido between pregnancies. I joke that I better not start up again because I am not ready to get pregnant again! I always got pregnant right when I was ready to take a test. Well, just two tests, but I took both in early pregnancy. So my sensei was hyper-sensitive about how my test nages treated me. I thought he was being a bit silly.
Shigosei, if you start up, prepare for bloody knees! >.<
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You have probably never met anybody that is naturally as clumbsy as I am. My friends always used to call me Kraemer after the Seinfeld character.
The Aikido hasn't gotten rid of that, but is has helped...
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Porter, me too! Well, not the nickname part, but the uncoordinated part. I actually had to go to perceptual motor clinic when I was a kid because of it.
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My knees didn't bleed, but the tops of my feet did. Actually, there was a kind of cool thread about it. I'll have to go and see if it's still around.
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Found it! It's the "Ouch--what should I do about these blisters" thread. I also bumped another thread that's just entitled "Ouch", which was about being clumsy. It would seem that a lot of us have less than perfect grace around here.
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Dude, that's why we're here. The graceful people spend their time trying out for Broadway, and not on a geeky internet forum. Posts: 6367 | Registered: Aug 2003
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Well--I have a goatee. Do you have any facial hair? A goatee trups the clean shaven look, making me the evil twin. If you had a handlebar mustache, though that would definitely trump my goatee.
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And since LDS people generally seem to be some of the nicest individuals on the planet, that would suggest that--barring some unexpectedly lush facial hair--Porter is the good twin.
Celia would be so proud of me!
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It's a martial arts thread, so naturally I have to sound off:
Judo is a sport and is designed around a highly structured scenario involving "safe" grappling, wrestling and throws. Now, higher levels of Judo instruction will include potentially unsafe techniques, but the point is not to hurt your opponent.
Jujitsu is the "let's hurt someone by breaking joints" martial art. It was designed and practiced by samurai for use against armored foes.
Aikido is as much a philosophy as a martial art. It's more graceful and geared towards flowing motion and not the same fighting for position you see in Judo.
Aikido deals with a re-direction of force in a fashion as to deter an attacker without causing undue injury to the attacker.
Judo can be very physically intense and demanding - a lot of fun, but you are picking up people and throwing them around. And a lot of hands-on wrestling.
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