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Old 12-08-2006, 12:52 AM   #15
PeterKang
Dojo: YMCA aikido club KL
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 17
Malaysia
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Re: People I don't want to learn from

I have been at the same dojo since 2000, and I have encountered a number of people who profess to teach the correct technique. One solution my girlfriend uses when she practices with such people is that she apologizes profusely to these people correcting her technique and says that their way is simply too advanced for her to understand. Sometimes its simply good self defence to seem dumb and to show humility. I think that you cannot choose the manner and direction the attacks come in. The only thing to do is to blend with the situation. Its practice... no more and no less.

Yours in aiki,

Peter
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