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Old 02-10-2005, 09:00 AM   #7
crand32100
Dojo: vermont aikido
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Re: Training and Learning

Guess what: practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Don't leave it up to your instuctor to spoon feed you everything. If you want to get better, you just have to keep searching. One of the best things that I was ever told was that I have to be my own sensei. Just learn whatever is right for you. Some want to learn to be fighters, some want to be gentile, some want to be able to get out of the way. It doesn't matter. I would also add that it's good to limit yourself to practicing what is possible. What's possible for some is not for others. One of my teachers told me that martial arts were created so that small people could defend themselves against big people. This just means that you have to do something else when you can't win with muscule.
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Last edited by crand32100 : 02-10-2005 at 09:07 AM.

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