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Michael Douglas wrote:
Dave, it sounds suicidally stupid, unbelievably dense ... that is, IF you assumed your were training those ten years in trying to learn how to throw unwilling people.
So either you were mistaken about what you were training, or you were hideously dense for ten years.
I'm betting on the former.
So I'm betting that you (and some others) simply have a wrong assumption about what your Aikido training IS.
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Michael, would you like to elaborate on what you think aikido training is? You seem to have a strong opinion. If we're not training to throw under practical conditions (i.e. when "uke" doesn't want to be thrown) then what are we training to achieve?
If you could also keep your comments focused on the topic rather than any personal assessments of my intelligence I'd appreciate that, too.