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Lorien Lowe wrote:
That's not what you said in post #8: "Until they have the go-ahead from the Do-Shu, they have no legitimacy and are just assumptive amateurs..."
So which is it? Formal recognition from the head of Aikikai makes aikido, or basic elements makes aikdo? Is everyone in the Ki Society, and everyone in an unaffiliated dojo, etc. an assumptive amateur who shouldn't say that they are doing aikido? Just asking for an opinion.
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Er, what has the fact that I don't get involved in organizations (Ki Society, Aikikai, Yoshinkan, etc.), keeping my eye on the essences, got to do with people making up their own arts and calling them "Aikido"? Certainly I believe in basic elements and I don't think a name should be used for an art if the art you practice has different elements. If the practice of a martial art has the basics, then I don't care whose organization it belongs to... I don't do organizations.
Mike