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Old 07-31-2008, 04:33 AM   #5
James Edwards
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Thinking about Aikido

Your judo gi should be fine as long as it's white. Most aikido practitioners in the UK use judo gi anyway.

As with your second question it seems that with the aikikai/birankai styles in the UK they are indeed more adult oriented. There are often separate children classes though.

About injuries it's mostly on the knees like Ms. Rosen said. Lots of kneeling and suwari-waza can take a toll after many years. They do say though that if you do your techniques right it should reduce the risk a lot. Another type of injury common with beginners is back injuries but I assume that you are already used to breakfalling and receiving techniques in judo.

Aikido is generally a pretty safe martial arts though you may know that yoshinkan aikido is regarded as one of the hardest styles of aikido as well.
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