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Re: Article: How to be a Student of Aikido by Ross Robertson
Excellent. Thank you for this.
Bronson
"A pacifist is not really a pacifist if he is unable to make a choice between violence and non-violence. A true pacifist is able to kill or maim in the blink of an eye, but at the moment of impending destruction of the enemy he chooses non-violence."
Re: Article: How to be a Student of Aikido by Ross Robertson
Good article - of the people that train in aikido, it's the ones that enjoy it for itself that seem to outlast the ones that come for a specific purpose (fitness/self-defence etc).
---understanding aikido is understanding the training method---