Thread: Wearing Hakama
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Old 08-18-2000, 06:28 AM   #18
andrew
Dojo: NUI, Galway Aikido Club.
Location: Galway, Ireland.
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Originally, everybody in Aikido wore a hakama, but there was a cloth shortage in Japan after the war...
And keikogi are underwear, people. As I read someone say anyhow, the whole "modesty" thing assumes sentiments unappropriate to Aikido on the mat and it's a wee bit insulting to aikidoka.
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