Kaze Uta Budo Kai Forum Archive

Mr. Tomiki said that randori is the element that brings kata to life ("completes the picture of the dragon, by painting in the eyes...")--but in the randori of the Tomiki lineage have an inherent contradiction -- Aikido is centered around a set of a defensive/reactive making harmony skills and actions but in randori you must become offensive and proactive and make kuzushi -- this sets up some unusually fertile ground for internal turmoil-- how do you resolve it? what is randori to you?

Was it Ueshiba that said that aikido was 70 percent strikes? I read this in one of the blogs on aikido journal and it seemed interesting that atemi is an important aspect of aikido which many have lost over the years.
Randori is an expression of the chaos inherent in any conflict which ultimately by way of excercising principles comes to a resolution. just my thoughts on randori..........

not lost at all -- the first five of the 17 are all "strikes"-- just not the typical kind