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Old 01-13-2010, 12:35 PM   #24
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Re: Dreaming about MMA?

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Matthew Story wrote: View Post
I don't disagree with any of this. Of course there is no physical self-defense without fighting skills. But there are often fighting skills without self-defense. The world is full of competent black belts who would have no idea what to do in a real self-defense situation. No few of these are supplied to the world by aikido. But some of them are MMAers, too.
Stories also abound of LE folks and Perps emptying their handguns at each other at almost point blank range and not hitting anything...

Competence has nothing to do with luck.

And few regular folks handle the adrenaline dump that comes with extreme danger very well regardless of competence...

Thats why on "The Street" surprise attacks work so well... The Attacker knows what's coming... The Defender usually freezes..and the attack is over... because there's no chance to react. How the Martial Arts Help with this is to Cultivate Martial Awareness...If you learn how to spot the signs of trouble before they escalate you have a better chance of defending your self and in Aikido's case defending your possible attacker by disengaging/deescalating the situation.

Aikido is definitely NOT anywhere near MMA but if practiced as a Martial Art it can produce a Martial Result aka you can prevail in a physical confrontation...

By doing so you can take as much time as you need to ponder the Founders Philosophy.
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