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Randall Lim wrote:
Aikido is not fighting. Neither is it FOR fighting. All those Aikido techniques that we do are just exercises to develop our Ki-harmony & Ki-connection with a partner, as well as our own Ki-projection.
With these 3 elements mastered, techniques should be modified for martial effectiveness.
However, without them being mastered, no Aikido technique will work, because they are just exercises to develop the 3 elements.
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Therefore the "aikido" you practice is not martial, but an exercise system developed from a "martial art"