Comments on: “Aikido and/or self defence - Part 4″ by Szilard Pal http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/2009/09/13/aikido-and-self-defence-by-szilard-pal/ Aikido Journal Online's Official Blog Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:42:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Taisho http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/2009/09/13/aikido-and-self-defence-by-szilard-pal/#comment-5747 Taisho Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:01:26 +0000 http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/?p=1622#comment-5747 The other parts here... http://onlineaikido.com/category/blog-tags/self-defense The other parts here…

http://onlineaikido.com/category/blog-tags/self-defense

]]> By: charles warren http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/2009/09/13/aikido-and-self-defence-by-szilard-pal/#comment-5746 charles warren Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:25:12 +0000 http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/?p=1622#comment-5746 Good stuff. I particularly like the "be nice". Unfortunately I have to take issue with the whole concept of self-defense. It's a poor translation of budo. Rather I feel that aikido is about giving up your life. In old forms the mantrum was "choose death". Not a bad starting place. O Sensei said be attached neither to life nor death. That's harder. Good stuff. I particularly like the “be nice”. Unfortunately I have to take issue with the whole concept of self-defense. It’s a poor translation of budo. Rather I feel that aikido is about giving up your life. In old forms the mantrum was “choose death”. Not a bad starting place. O Sensei said be attached neither to life nor death. That’s harder.

]]> By: hugo chauveau http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/2009/09/13/aikido-and-self-defence-by-szilard-pal/#comment-5744 hugo chauveau Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:19:34 +0000 http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/?p=1622#comment-5744 I had the same experience last year. One of my students at school (I'm a high school teacher) was actually robbed by three thugs who pointed a knife at his throat. He asked me what I would have done and stated that 'with all the tricks you know, sir, with all due respect, you would be in deep trouble as well'. I told him he had done the right thing: surrender the money and walk; I added that I would have done exactly the same thing. Primo, I have a wife and two young children and they don't need a dead or injured hero, but a husband and a father. Secundo, it's not worth taking the risk of lethally wounding one of them, you might be prosecuted yourself, which could create a financial problem for you and your relatives. Defending yourself is also staying out of trouble. I also added he should think about how this could have happened in the first place. I had the same experience last year. One of my students at school (I’m a high school teacher) was actually robbed by three thugs who pointed a knife at his throat. He asked me what I would have done and stated that ‘with all the tricks you know, sir, with all due respect, you would be in deep trouble as well’. I told him he had done the right thing: surrender the money and walk; I added that I would have done exactly the same thing. Primo, I have a wife and two young children and they don’t need a dead or injured hero, but a husband and a father. Secundo, it’s not worth taking the risk of lethally wounding one of them, you might be prosecuted yourself, which could create a financial problem for you and your relatives. Defending yourself is also staying out of trouble. I also added he should think about how this could have happened in the first place.

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