Why it's a strugglefest!

Freaking Pat and being so smart. The man pointed out that I was full of lies. Well at least that I was making a guess and presenting it as fact.
So, in reference to my earlier post where I make a guess that the reason that aikido seemed to have so much more mechanical advantage was distance... it was only that, a guess. To be honest I have no idea why most of what we do works. Ki?
The point I was trying to make before I decided to invent physical explinations that I had no backing for was that the collection of aikido techniques require on average less sense of muscle power for the same amount of effect.
Why?
I'm going to make another bold claim! That's really what americans do best, when proven wrong make an even more outragious statement.
Leastway, the reason that less power is needed is...
Uke sets the kuzushi! What what! Struggler in da house!
In aikido the assumption is that at mii uke attacks. We use this attack to set the inital kuzushi and techniques follow. No power from you is required to set this initial off-balance.
However, in judo both players are already connected and "attacking." So, to set kuzushi, some of tori's power must be spent to get the bad guy off balance.
So, before the throw occures, judo has expended more energy then aikido.
Further, since you're setting the off-balance instead of following uke's motion (like in aikido), uke as a better feel for what is coming. Both a sense that a throw is emenent and which one that is. So, the throw, in general, is going to less effective because uke knows its about to hit him.
However, after this initial deal, aikido and judo feel a lot alike to me. In particular "the first releace chain" and "the circle of throws."
That is, if you think about chaining throws in Judo, where you keep attempting throw after throw after throw. It feels (to me) like i'm using the current throw as kuzushi's for next throw. That's why its important to know a sort of order of throws and which leads to which. This is exactly what "the chain" does in aikido. It's all about how to use the current throw as kuzushi for the next. So really i guess, aikido and judo have more in common then i first thought.
Ok! Have a good one folks.