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Old 03-21-2004, 02:19 PM   #1
Tom Hooper
Dojo: Smac
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Relating Aikido to the streets

Hi again!

I was just pondering on how more experienced aikidoka relate their training methods to an attacker in the street, i recently was confronted by an idiot from my college who attempted to hit me with a punch to the face through a bit of sloppy footwork i managed to put him down gently to the amusement of his friends but i was considering how if the punch would have been more extreme how i would of used some of the aikido techniques to subdue him. Consider ikkyo from shomen-uchi, if shomen-uchi was a punch does this mean we would just have to use another technique are there ways to subdue attackers who use western methods of attack.

Ever searching Tom
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