View Single Post Old 06-10-2006, 07:32 PM   #66 Location:
Indiana Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,311 Re: Mixing Aikido with
other martial arts  Jorge Garcia wrote: I am 50 years old and
have never been attacked by a BJJ person, a Karate person or a
Wing Chun person. Ahh but you see, as a requirement of my bjj
training, I have to find and attack random people on th street
every day. We are barbarians you know!  But seriously, that is a
good point. Most people will never be attacked. But the question
comes: Why do so many martial art instructors (aikido suffers
this as well) make such a big deal about the self defense
portion of their art, if self defense is really not a concern?
Shouldn't we tell these people to go get some stun gun training?
If somone goes into the majority of dojo's in america and tells
the sensei they are there for self defense, they will usually be
told that their art can make you invincible (more of less). This
is why we see hundreds of people who seem to think they are
invincible because t