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Hellis · 02-28-2011, 02:32 AM

Hi Tony

I remember a few years back when I met a senior student of a ` softer` style. He told me he was on a tube train in London, he and his wife and two kids were seriously abused, bad mouthed and pushed back and forth by a gang of yobs...He admitted that he felt that he could not protect his family.....There was worse to come later when his wife gave him so much `pony` for all the Aikido practice nights and years he had neglected her and the home for this to happen....
I didn't like to ask if he had given them a stern look or had a polite chat with them.....

Henry Ellis
http://aikido-controversy.blogspot.com/

02-28-2011, 02:32 AM	#23
Hellis Dojo: Ellis Schools of Traditional Aikido Location: Bracknell Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 657 Offline	Re: Is your Aikido as a Martial Art up to Reality? Hi Tony I remember a few years back when I met a senior student of a ` softer` style. He told me he was on a tube train in London, he and his wife and two kids were seriously abused, bad mouthed and pushed back and forth by a gang of yobs...He admitted that he felt that he could not protect his family.....There was worse to come later when his wife gave him so much `pony` for all the Aikido practice nights and years he had neglected her and the home for this to happen.... I didn't like to ask if he had given them a stern look or had a polite chat with them..... Henry Ellis http://aikido-controversy.blogspot.com/