I think that Aikido is a fine martial art that has a lot to offer in trems of self dicipline but little to offer in the way of self defense.
Now I am not going to get into a mud slinging match about aikido as I have never trained in it ans so am only talking from my experiance of people that have trained in aikido and what I have read.
Also I do not feel that saying its limitted in terms of self defense takes away from its value in anyway.
(and that is as diplomatic as i will ever need to get I hope)
scotty1
So have you found a teacher in china yet?
One of the guys from our club has gone out to Bejing and has found a teacher for 200 of our UK pounds a month but thats for 8 hours training a day 5 days a week.
Not quite sure what he is training in though as MSN instant messiging second hand though my teacher is hard to get much sense from.
LOL.. really, what else did you hear?.. did you hear that he was voted Man of the Year by Kung-Fu Magizine?