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Re: No Gi Aikido
I like the dogi for 4 things. These are not in any particular order.
1) having the people wear black from the middle down, and white from the middle up helps me focus on always directing what is black down and what is white up (never the same direction, or the reverse).
2) My pants have a tendancy of ripping when I work out without my dogi
3) I like to work on quite/silent rolling. The whole dogi/hakama get up makes that more of a challenge.
4) I find it helps contribute to the whole "experience" in terms of the hero's journey mythalogical experience. You go to some strange place have an experience, and come back to your normal life a bit changed. The "get up" contributes to the strange place. Kind of like when some Church used to be in Latin.
Given all of that, I'd still not care al that much if no one ever wore dogis/hakamas again.
Rob
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