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Old 01-04-2006, 11:24 PM   #496
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Re: Aikido does not work at all in a fight.

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Keith Lee wrote:
No worries there. It's like a big, sweet honeycomb attracting all the new little bees who come to Aikido and Aikiweb.
OR you could say it's a big pile of s*it attracting all the flies.

However Gary... what you just said - most practioners know that AND so? It has absolutely no relevance in the world of today. Also we do not know exactly what training formats were used in that time and if we did it would probably not be suitable for most of us as we do not want to devote our whole lives to cold weapons and empty-handed combat.

So some people of TODAY have come up with different kind of methods and ideologys (some of which are surely reinvented old ones) that better suit the needs of a martial-art/self defence/whatever individual of TODAY.

And so in my opinion the whatever training format was used by all the mighty samurais who all could kick so much a*s or whatever training format was used in beginning of 20th century by some japanese just MIGHT be outdated/very context specific and have a LITTLE value now unless you are specifically drawn to the historical/philosophical context in which case one should admit it and quit rambling about street self defence, principals seen everywhere and such.
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