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"Your guide for newbies covers vastly all the points that worry me the most ... I read it eagerly the minute I received it, and several times more after. ... I wonder how people used to prepare for their first gradings in the olden days, before you guys wrote this guide ... In general, I like the understanding and friendly style of yours, and the tricks to gain a few secs in case you feel too tired! ..." Patricia, London
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I have some sort of confusion about our martial art when it comes to the concepts of harmony, control, centre, and so on. Connor has already made some comparisons between aikido and other martial arts (see his self-defence post series,[1] [2] [3] [4]), and there he discussed which one is 'better' than the other, which one works better against one another. In this post, I compare aikido to other martial arts in the sense how selfish they are/appear. By writing my thoughts down, I hope to organise my thoughts and share them with you in order to give you some interesting ideas, and to receive some feedback (by the way, all these aims are selfish).
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