Thread: Prison Aikido?
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Old 07-17-2002, 07:02 AM   #19
Nyall Frye
Dojo: Kurilla Dojo, Bratislava, Slovakia
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Hi Jaxon,

IMHO - My advice, if you still want to be assured that Aikido 'works' in a real-life situation is to go to your sensei before or after class and attack him. I'm sure that you'll see how effective aikido works by doing this. Ok, I wouldn't recommend this but, perhaps it would be simpler to just imagine what might happen by doing this.

Aikido, unlike other martial arts (if you want to call it that) takes much time and patience to master even the basics. Unlike Karate (which I've studied) where you learn within a year various strikes and defenses to the point that you can use them effectively, Aikido is about much more than technique and so it takes a substantial amount of training to master those techniques. If a person is only interested in the technique, they could study the various other styles that contribute to Aikido. But, that is why we study Aikido and not something else. Because it gives us more than just repetition of technique when we truly embrace Aikido.

I hope that this might help.

Take care, all.

-Nyall
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