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Old 02-28-2012, 09:37 PM   #17
Rupert Atkinson
 
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Re: How to be non-competitive in a competitive world

The problem in AIkido as I see it is that people get caught up in preaching on about peace. Well, preaching peace is just words. In the dojo we need to be practicing almost as if for war. What I mean is, train seriously and talk peace all you want afterwards. At the end of the day, you can only 'let the villian off easy' if you have the ability to absolutely destroy him. If you can't destroy him, then you will not be able to 'let him off' or deal with him lightly/gently. Rather, he'll be busy destroying you. You can only 'be kind' to the villian if you are much better than him. And if you are not there yet, well, you had better stop talking about peace until you are more 'qualified' to do so, in my opinion.

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