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Old 06-28-2013, 03:08 PM   #67
Aikeway
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 52
Australia
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Re: No Competition in Aikido(excluding Tomiki)

The benefit of competing or having a match/challenge is that it allows you to improve your skills by testing whether they actually work, and if not, allowing you to make modifications so that they do work. Thus you become more highly skilled. The fact that some people may compete for what we may consider are wrong reasons, should not be a valid reason to prohibit competitions or challenges/matches. The remedy for students who compete for the wrong reason is to have an instructor who instils the correct values in their students.
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