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Ed knows Aikido
This strip came out of doing a self-defence course with an Aikido instructor. I found the course really useful, but one of the thing that bothers me about this and other martial arts is that you can’t just do it in your track-suit. Once you get serious, you have to wear a daft-looking outfit that you will never be wearing outside should you need to use the skills you learned…
Tags: aikido, fight, hoodlums, hoods, looking for trouble, louts, self-defence
Oscar harnesses the power of aikido
Port Phillip is a great council. They sponsor, or promote a lot of community-building activities. I go to a community tennis session on Friday afternoons and my yoga class used to be free (I now pay for a class with the same teacher). This last 6 weeks I’ve been doing a self-defence course run by the Elwood Aikido dojo and it has been challenging to say the least. I think I’ve learnt a lot and most of what I’ve learnt has been psychological and not physical.
But I’m looking forward to getting my Friday nights back!
(Especially as boyfriend and dog arrive here on Wednesday, yay!)
Tags: aikido, course, melbourne, self-defence, throw
