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Old 07-11-2011, 06:49 AM   #12
Tim Ruijs
 
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Re: Kihon (Basics) waza - In a state of decline?

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Anthony Loeppert wrote: View Post
... appreciate the genius of the learning system, which does not require you understand it from the beginning, only that you "submit" to it: doing things you don't understand, which might feel unnatural and or awkward, on the faith that an expert put a lot of thought into training methodology and nothing is "haphazard"
+1 so very true! This might be at the very foundation of many discussions currently on Aikido.
(No intend to hijack this thread, mind you.)

In a real fight:
* If you make a bad decision, you die.
* If you don't decide anything, you die.
Aikido teaches you how to decide.
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