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Old 09-17-2004, 05:36 PM   #28
Chris Li
 
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Re: Aikido Separatism / Fundamentalism?

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Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
On the second thought... Maybe non-competitiveness is not a form, but the spirit of Aikido...
I'm wondering why Tomiki sensei chose to introduce competition in Aikido. I'll have to search the web for this...
BTW, my apologies if the passage I brought up was also translated incorrectly (as the case with the title of the book).
He talks quite about about his reasoning in "Budo-ron", Japanese only, but also a worthwhile read.

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Chris

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