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	<title><![CDATA[Utada Sensei 30 Year Anniversary]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[Helped demo for this today, it was an interesting experience.  The actual techniques I did for my 1 minute are a blur.  The more interesting part was watching all the other demos.  It was my first exposure to really seeing a lot of other schools do their Aikido.

Also seeing the Yoshikan Dojo brought out a lot of reflections on training at larger schools vs smaller schools, when I saw all those people on the mat at once.  Utada Sensei was quite interesting to watch.  I was struck at one point by the subtlelty of his movement when he evaded an attack.  I felt kind of like I was watching a stage magician and that I should have been watching him more instead of the action, because he was there, then suddenly not there...  All in all an interesting afternoon. ]]></body>
	<date>11-07-2004</date>
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