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Old 09-24-2002, 12:06 PM   #12
James Trueman
Dojo: Kioido Aikido / Aikijutsu Kai
Location: England
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 10
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What is Aikido? If anyone can give me a fully inclusive, comprehensive definition then I will know what is being stolen. As Kevin Leavitt suggests, there are only so many ways to work the body - ultimately Aikido is one mans interpretation of how to do that, created from his many years in budo. All arts can be sourced back to an era when the vital components of the now disected arts were together. Therefore what is being stolen, Aikido?, something before? or nothing as the right to train belongs to us all.

Conversely, in response to MikeE and contradicting myself, is there an issue of intellectual property here? ideas and techniques manifested in physical forms and thereby does someone own something - but how is it proved?
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