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Old 12-02-2010, 04:58 AM   #24
Tim Ruijs
 
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Re: Aikido in a street situation

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Henry Ellis wrote:
If you train in a dojo where most of your training is with very compliant ukie's, you may become too confident until that confidence is shattered by a guy in the street that doesn't know he has to comply with you and your technique.
Minoru Mochizuki said. "Too much karate will make you aggressive, too much judo will make you passive, too much aikido will make you arrogant."

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Attilio Anthony John Wagstaffe wrote: View Post
And here endeth the lesson..... amen!
+1

You will eventually find what you are looking for...

In a real fight:
* If you make a bad decision, you die.
* If you don't decide anything, you die.
Aikido teaches you how to decide.
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