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Old 08-11-2003, 03:58 PM   #51
Aristeia
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You may be right Erik that people are using sparring and competition interchangeably. It's a natural progression though, once you start sparring it's a small step to make it competitively. Hell, I've never entered a BJJ competition but when I'm sparring I'm damn well competing. (or not so well as the case may be) And again I'm not saying competition in Aikido is necessarily a bad thing, but you can see why people equate sparring with competition.

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