Being tempted by Aikido

[Instructor]

I think you should have a very frank conversation with the Aikido instructor about your physical limitations and see if you can participate.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Ah I see some distance. Recently I have learned some ballet purely to dance with my daughter but man does that toe position posture is painful

Bruce Lee said the best athletes for martial arts were dancers in his opinion.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I think you should have a very frank conversation with the Aikido instructor about your physical limitations and see if you can participate.

Thanks, but not at that point yet, but when I get there, that is what I plan on doing. I really do not see me starting any of this, if I do, before Summer.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Bruce Lee said the best athletes for martial arts were dancers in his opinion.

Don Angier (soke of Yanagi-ryu Aiki Bugei) once told me in a seminar that if he had his way, he'd require people to take 6 months of dance before he would train them.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Don Angier (soke of Yanagi-ryu Aiki Bugei) once told me in a seminar that if he had his way, he'd require people to take 6 months of dance before he would train them.

I find a "dislike" of that comment funny. It's a quote of something an instructor said to me - what's to dislike?