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Originally Posted by Joemoplata  We have a former Aikido school owner and instructor with like 15 years of Aikido experience that trains BJJ with us. He once told me that his Aikido training helped him not at all coming into the BJJ training environment and he didn't feel that, looking back, it offered him much in the way of self defense. |
I've heard something similiar from both a Hapkido and a Aikido practionoer. I think it is more the instructors of each art that they studied under. Both guys had an incredibly hard time dealing with energy applied directly on thier center. Its hard for me to beleive that this is something inherent in each art, but more a lacking in training.