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Re: Mixing Aikido with other martial arts
yeah to take the analogy, it used to be everyone showing up to my bjj school were expereienced martial artists of another type. Is that because you need another art to do bjj? No, it was just that the only people that had heard about it were martial artists. Now that it is more "mainstream" many more true newbies are coming through the door.
It may have been similar with Aikido - when it first started it makes sense that it was experienced martial artists that heard about it and showed up.
Having said all that, I agree it works better when built on a foundation of live training in other arts.
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