I really enjoyed this video demonstration - especially the segments of kids practicing aikido - real aikido - not watered-down aiki warm-up kids primer aikido.
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Coming up through the ranks we were assured by our instructors that aikido was not for kids because it was too dangerous. They justified that opinion with a couple of reasons, like wristlocks putting growth plates at risk and lack of maturity=lack of control... but I suspect that opinion was based more on their personal lack of interest in teaching kids than in some sort of objective fact.
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When you look at it, kids practice judo and karate and BJJ and boxing all the time without depopulating the world. Why shouldn't we be able to train kids in aikido.
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I've been thinking for a while about how to do kids aikido classes. Still thinking about it...
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Patrick Parker
www.mokurendojo.com
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