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Ike Spenser wrote:
Almost all weapons forms seen now in the west came out of Iwama, and even that didn't happen until Saito wandered out of japan in 1985 or so.
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Well...Saotome was teaching quite a lot of weapons (only partially Saito derived) when I started in 1981, and Nishio and Chiba each had their own weapons systems which aren't really related to Iwama that closely.
Tohei also had some fairly simple weapons - again, only dimly related to Iwama, that he taught in the US from the 1950's.
Best,
Chris