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Old 07-07-2004, 09:54 AM   #10
Marshall Sandoz
Location: Louisiana
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Re: Practice soft to fight hard?

I train fellow police officers in defensive tactics for my department. Police work is about as "real" as it gets on the streets. Even we don't train at full speed or apply techniques to each other at full strength. I don't imagine that my students would be able to report for duty after training if we did and I would be doing a lot of explaining to the chief. We train our officers at a pace that allows the technique to be applied correctly and effectively, which is the purpose of training in the first place. The fact is, people just don't learn much from the side lines or the emergency room. As long as the technique is learned correctly, applied correctly, and practiced correctly the end result is technique that is very effective. I approach my aikido training in exactly the same way and so far it's worked for me.
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