UNCLE ICHI WHERE ART THOU
Most wisdom is hidden in the form of drunk uncles that we only see occasionally. We have 6 drunk uncles in texas flavored Tommy Key aikido. The ones that come around the most are old uncle san, and old uncle yon. Ichi, Ni, Go, and roku must have died in the war or something.
My aikido wet dream is that I can go into class and do the releases three times through and the 17 three times( or maybe the big ten) through and then do koryu kata for the rest of the class as a cool down. It may take a year to get in shape enough to do the entire 17, 3 times, but I think thats the point. Martial arts is physical, and you dont get efficient until your ass is wore out and you drop your illusions about things.
Texas flavored Tommy key aikido only does San Kata/ Yon Kata. I've been told that old Judo guys with bad knees have trouble doing the rest so they didnt learn it or teach it. I can also say that Ive noticed that most Tommy key aikido guys that I know either do judo concurrently with aikido or start doing judo around the time that Koryu kata become interesting. Or, they may start picking up a sword or stick around about this time. It boils down to not enough time during the week to do everything.
Uncle NI died in the War
Uncle GO
That RAT bastard ROKU, grandma dont talk about him no more.
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