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Old 07-06-2012, 06:11 AM   #19
Michael Douglas
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Skills for WHAT?

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David Ringle wrote: View Post
... after the better part of a decade on the aikido mat I found I couldn't effectively throw judo green belts. When I analyzed my performance a little the reason was actually very simple. I had never prepared to throw someone who doesn't want to fall...

... Sounds pretty silly when I spell it out.
Dave, it sounds suicidally stupid, unbelievably dense ... that is, IF you assumed your were training those ten years in trying to learn how to throw unwilling people.
So either you were mistaken about what you were training, or you were hideously dense for ten years.
I'm betting on the former.

So I'm betting that you (and some others) simply have a wrong assumption about what your Aikido training IS.

Although ... going ten years without an event to snap you out of delusion is a heck of a long time!
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