Re: To bow or not to bow
I think, aikido (as I know and learn it) is a form of japonisme
and can't be separated.
(Btw.: It took me two years until I started practicing aikido. Because I refused to bow to something or someone else except god. And because I thougth the Holy Ghost to be the only "life-energy" and didn't want to deal with something named "ki".)
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