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I believe that almost every one that joins an aikido dojo are wanting to learn to defend themselves.Learning to defend oneself puts u on a higher plane once u realize that its not hard to hurt people then u have true respect for other people and their rants and challenges to u become more of a joke.If you are in a school where your ukes fall from the slightest touch and are thrown from the slightest thought of a kote-hineri and offer u no resistance at all then if u ever have to use your skills in real life then you will be in for a very rude awakening.If you are of the belief that you can throw some one by some mystic power then you will also be badly caught out.All i am saying is practice realisim in your dojo.O ut of all the the hundreds of possible throws and locks in aikido every one will only use maybe 5 or 6 of them with different applications because they are the ones that work for them in most situations even though they have the skill to do them all they will always revert back to those 5 or 6 when in harms way.
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