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Old 11-16-2008, 10:26 AM   #110
DonMagee
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Re: aikido vs MMA figther

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Alex Lawrence wrote: View Post
If you're training for kuzushi on contact (or even before if you're leading) how do you have resistance training when resistance requires balance?
I'm not perfect. I wish I was. Most of the guys I'm facing are not fully committed to their attacks. They want to hurt me, but they are also intelligent fighters.

This means I have to be that much better to throw them. This is honesty in training and it works.

Same is true in bjj. I can do all sorts of cool stuff against a first day student. Put me against a good purple belt and watch me flounder around and appearing to be much less skilled them I am.

The question is, which one of those guys is teaching me more?

- Don
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