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niall · 09-04-2012, 05:34 AM

I have no problem with your points about politics and rank and ability and resistance and kokyu ryoku.

But I don't like your title or your definition of elegance. First it implies aestheticism for the sake of aestheticism. Second perhaps a very few budo teachers have had a certain elegance in their movements. But Morihiro Saito Sensei? Powerful? Yes. Effective? Yes. Elegant? No.

09-04-2012, 05:34 AM	#2
niall Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 394 Offline	Re: Elegance I have no problem with your points about politics and rank and ability and resistance and kokyu ryoku. But I don't like your title or your definition of elegance. First it implies aestheticism for the sake of aestheticism. Second perhaps a very few budo teachers have had a certain elegance in their movements. But Morihiro Saito Sensei? Powerful? Yes. Effective? Yes. Elegant? No.
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