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Old 09-14-2005, 03:32 PM   #56
Pankration90
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Re: yet another annoying cross training q

I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I apologize if I did. I just meant that if someone wants to get better at fighting, then I wouldn't recommend starting with something like aikido.

For example, someone could go to one wrestling practice and pick up something that they could apply pretty quickly to the average person. They wouldn't be great at it but after a short period of time they would probably have a good chance of being able to use it in a fight.

Like I said I haven't trained in aikido so I could be wrong. That's just the impression I get from reading posts on this website and from the books I've read (Total Aikido and a book about Tomiki/Shodokan that I can't remember the name of).

Note: I was just using wrestling as an example, but the same could have been said for a lot of styles.
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