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DonMagee · 05-09-2007, 11:34 AM

I agree, distance plays a big part. Once we are closer then arms reach I find judo a much easier thing to perform. Of course the principles I use to do this are not so much the principles my aikido instructor would want me to use. I am also more comfortable on the inside, so I tend to go from striking to clinch range rather quickly. That probably doesn't lend itself to aikido.

05-09-2007, 11:34 AM	#132
DonMagee Location: Indiana Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,311 Offline	Re: "Aikido is for wusses": a response? I agree, distance plays a big part. Once we are closer then arms reach I find judo a much easier thing to perform. Of course the principles I use to do this are not so much the principles my aikido instructor would want me to use. I am also more comfortable on the inside, so I tend to go from striking to clinch range rather quickly. That probably doesn't lend itself to aikido.
	- Don "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein