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Old 05-03-2020, 06:49 PM   #11
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Re: Athletics in aikido

Hi Jon,
It has been a long time! Nearly 20 years!
I think it is great you are doing IP work and I am interested in your feedback. Much of the early discussion on here was pretty tedious with "we do that", "no you don't" repeat ad nauseam. However, some of the discussion did go into modern athletics and that was sometimes also dismissed. I suppose I felt that when you see what modern athletes can do in various sports and how advanced modern training methods are, I was surprised that there isn't some overlap. I suppose there is a tendency to emphasise the mystical eastern methods. Having said that it is important to remember that however much I love tennis, even when I was younger I was never going to ever be as good as Rodger Federer will be when he is a pensioner!
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