Thread: Doubting Aikido
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Old 05-05-2003, 01:07 AM   #14
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Aleksey S (shihonage) wrote:
It's the avoidance of the question, and the length of the answer.
I have to disagree. If we go back to the original post for a moment (emphasis added):
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Bryan Siekierko wrote:
There are many people that post in this forum that have doubts about the martial effectiveness of Aikido. I was just wondering why these people train in Aikido?
IMHO Paul's (long) reply adressed that question nicely by saying that there are other reasons for training Aikido aside from becoming "martially effective" (or whatever you'd like to call it).

PS: I'm a non-doubter
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