And another thing...This is from Chris's own bio on your website
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Just about ready to give up on Aikido as an actual usable martial art, I happened to enter a full contact stick fighting tournament with the Dog brothers. The Dog brothers are a group of full contact stick fighters living in southern california. They have regular "meetings of the pack" where they get together and fight full contact with sticks; and no rules. The only safety equipment used is a fencing helmet, and gloves. They use rattan sticks to keep bone breaking to a minimum but it is none the less very intense and very dangerous. I fought with a jo, and to my amazement, the techniques of Aikido flowed from me. I was very capable and able, and all the training I received worked like a charm. I could in fact FEEL what I have now come to understand as AIKI. I could feel my opponents intentions, and also his openings.
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So I ask why does not Chris teach this the way he was taught?
Very strange.
William Hazen