The name calling doesn't mean squat once you square off and start swinging

[Guest guest]

--- , Richard Shepard <devlin_76> wrote:

 

Hi Richard,

 

Actually YOUR post was a GOOD post.

 

The " other " post was a mismatching profile post, argumentative with

no basis towards the subject of my original post, which was in

answer to Roy's post and what ROY WANTED to get more information

about.

 

The " other " fellow's post used ASSUMPTIONS and INFERENCES " NOT "

mentioned by me nor by any of the other posters.

 

But because he " said " I said them, then they must be true, right?

 

One thing I like about a good hands on fight. The whining and

bitching and mouthlyness and name calling don't mean caca once you

square off and start swinging.

 

Then a reality check does set in very quickly.

 

 

 

> > It's not just " He was a brute and he could fight, but these day

> > Aikidoka are all wimps. " The system

> > was valid then and is valid now. The people who want to learn to

use

> > it for serious self defense have an excellent vehicle for doing

so. I

> personally believe it is at its best as a postgraduate

> > course in advanced work for accomplished martial artists, but

it's a

> > deep enough system that people can get what they want to out of

it

> with enough work.

> >

>

> One Aikido blackbelt I have had the pleasure to debate with has

decided

> that Aikido is a very good system for developing weapon skills,

but is

> not taht effective for unarmed self-defense. I can only assume

that

> though his view is certainly valid, it would probably be different

had

> his experience been in Tomiki/Fugakukai Aikido instead of

Aikikai.

>

>

> > The Tomiki and Yoshinkai schools have excellent reputations

training

> > some pretty hard-core police officers. Their methods aren't the

same

> as, say, the Ki Society. But they don't serve the same ends.

> >

>

> " Angry White Pajamas " is a great book about one man's experience

in the

> Yoshinkan Riot Police program in Japan.

>

>

> >They might be better served by having gone through other parts of

the

> development, but that's always the problem,isn't it? You only

> > get a snapshot of a teacher.

> >

>

> Then as always, the teacher is a critical aspect of learning any

> martial art. There are butt-kickin' Taiji instructors just like

there

> are hippie Aikido instructors. Find the kind of teacher that best

> meets your needs and hope for the best.

>

> Thanks,

> Richard