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Old 11-13-2006, 01:19 AM   #3
xuzen
 
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Re: A Personal Moment with O Sensei

In my aikido dojo, we bow to the teacher and each other as sign of respect. There is no picture of O'sensei.

In Judo class, we bow to picture of Jigoro Kano, as a sign of respect.

Personally, I am impartial to this bowing business. If either O'Sensei or Jigoro Kano were descendant of Maoris and we are suppose to do the extremely Kewl Haka War Dance before each Randori session, I guess I would too.

P/S I think doing the Haka War Dance is kewl. Just look at the All Blacks (TM); they score high marks in my cool-o-meter reading.

Boon the All Blacks (TM) wannabee.

Last edited by xuzen : 11-13-2006 at 01:21 AM.

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