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Old 08-24-2008, 09:50 PM   #55
Tim Fong
 
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Re: Defending Against Grappler Using Aikido

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Philip Burgess wrote: View Post
And his beer belly dwarfted mine. But I had the other guys beat. I have yet to see a serious MMA/BJJ with that size of a beer belly. But then again they don't understand the demands there are on the kind of training that it takes to "keep your center."
Philip, (or do you prefer Phil?)

Right. So what kind of training would that be? How does it give an older person an advantage over someone moving faster? And how would that help one defend against a grappler? Assuming that one somehow thinks of aikido as distinct from grappling?

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Tim
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