P12 Tourney VS Arizona St

Your understanding of irimi and tenkan as yin and yang is elementary. There is no tenkan without irimi. Physically, one cannot simply retreat without being destroyed. But I will grant you that in very limited ways you are correct about irimi and tenkan. But it's like trying to paint the Mona Lisa with a paint sprayer.

I said in my post that you reacted to that I had not followed the argument. I was simply agreeing with how important the spirit is in the game. We saw the swings even in 2018; go back and watch the game against UW in Omaha. The Beavs were in a funk until after the rain break.

Every team goes into the game believing that they will succeed and that they are ready. There is no disputing that. But my post about how at some point, the mental preparedness looms heavy in athletics. Gone are the days when your skill is enough to get the win. It's mental fortitude and spirit and believing in yourself and your team.

I believed Kwan was the key to our 2018 Championship. All throughout the year, he was the one player that brought energy and lifted everybody up. You can see it in his cheering during the Championship games which he couldn't play. Never would I have guessed that Kwan suffered all that time from the idea that he wasn't worthy to be there. But he did. And obviously he belonged there. You really should watch the interview. I think it was made when he moved up to Cleveland as a rookie and he turned so many heads.

Then extrapolate that information. If Kwan suffered, who else? And you'll see that these are just kids who are in pretty deep. How they handle it, how their cultivate their spirit, is very important. Canham frequently talks about how guys recover (or not) from slip ups on the field. Watch for it. You'll see who gets down and who bounces right back. Pitchers, especially.

If you go back and read the exchange, I had not attacked you. I simple agreed with a statement in a reply of a person you were arguing with. Then you attacked me. So don't act innocent. My replies have had substance, plus a little dig at the end because you have initiated the attack. Your replies have been attacks. 

Finally, please don't try to understand Aikido with a cursory glance and then try to use it against me. It makes you look awfully foolish. "modern Aikido"? The Founder died within my lifetime. It isn't an old art. And what you know about the nuances of balance and attack is limited to a simple Google search, not decades on the mat.

You started with the symbol of Yin and Yang, so let me finish my post with it. You are probably familiar with the actual picture, but you have to remember that yin and yang are always flowing, one into the other, and that within yin there is yang and within yang there is yin. How do you separate attack from defense? How do you separate peace from violence? How do you separate ego from non-ego? Non-dualism.

Put another way, my teacher once said that you cannot ask for peace from a point of weakness. Think about it.

LOL... my initial reply to your first post:

"Lol... so one dugout doesn't believe?
Guess the entire theory of "float with them" didn't apply last night? So far today?
I'm pretty sure... positive both dugouts in college baseball believe... as a team and individuals. Or else they'd not be at this level.
Too bad your philosophies don't hold. As I believe that every swing on the golf course will have a positive result! 🙄"


Attacked huh??? And, your next reply...

"Did you ever learn about what Kwan was dealing with while he was a Beaver? You should. Then you'll start to appreciate that at a certain level of ability, the defining character is mental toughness.

Your golf game? Hell, I've heard you have a hard time getting anything into a hole."



Again Kwan has zero to do with the conversation/situation and you seem to have real issue with self evaluation.

And, my knowledge is a bit more than elementary... as your "teacher" must have strayed of the primary focus of defense while protecting one's attacker from injury. The well being of an aggressor is suppose to be the focus no matter the interpretation of any "teacher". But, true to your moniker you do "enter" a fray... but self control seems to have slipped your grasp! Blame the teacher I guess...

Again... another poor animal abused. Continue on... can't wait.

Different styles sure. And within Aikido there are techniques with weapons, like the wooden staff, the sword, and the knife, both against another weapon and disarming. 

Yes, the approaches from different teachers can be quite jarring. I've come to learn that everyone sees the art as an extension of themselves and that my ideas of what it should be and should look like have been influenced by who I am and my past teachers. It's very interesting to me. 

Thanks for asking. And sorry for taking the thread further away from baseball.

It's broken!