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Old 09-06-2012, 08:15 AM   #57
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Re: Sensei?

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Christopher Li wrote: View Post
The question is - why add an additional cultural layer, and what does it really get you?

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Chris
Some people take the coach structure to odd extremes too, both as the coach and the student, so you can't really use that as a negative against one and not the other. Realistically, a lot of people come to the art for that touch of another culture and the atmosphere of discipline and respect that it conjures in our minds. I don't really see any negatives to it and it brings people to the art that probably wouldn't be there otherwise, which some might see as a negative, but I do not. This doesn't really apply to the more Japanese than the Japanese extreme though, but that is an extreme.
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