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Old 10-16-2000, 11:16 AM   #7
slartibartfasz
Join Date: Oct 2000
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i donīt know very much ībout aikido but for me it is like coming home....

iīm writing this after my second training session on aikido

i know a lot about self defense and i mean the nasty type of it - ripping off ears, breaking legs and all the dirty tricks there are - eventually my friends at university asked me:

hey what do you do if two armed thugs...

and i always told them that i would run away because i see no sense in anyone getting injured - not because i was afraid of them but because i was afraid what i could do to them

two weeks ago i went to a dojo and we didnīt do much more than rolling around on the floor; i began to read about aikido on the net and it felt like my own thoughts - iīm really happy that i finally found a way to do something BETWEEN killing and running away and iīm really happy that i now have the opportunity to discover a whole world and so many people that feel in the same way - i only whish it would have happened earlier

for me aikido seems to be a way of living - my way of living - i only didnīt know until two weeks ago that this way has a name
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