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Old 11-06-2004, 03:38 AM   #19
PeterR
 
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Re: Shodothug Wallpaper

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Tim Rohr wrote:
Oh, the irony...

"We don't need no stinkin' hakama...

...but we've got our belts, and our uniforms, and our japanese name, and... and..."

And a tough guy stereotype to enact. Don't forget that. God forbid you forget that.
Disclaimer has already been mentioned but the whole Shodothug label was invented by a non-Shodokan person if memory serves me correctly. It was obvious then as it is now that tongue was firmly planted in cheek and so with every Shodokan persons response.

And we have the belts, uniforms, japanese name and lack of hakama because we see the source of what we do as being in Japan. There is no irony - we get that beaten out of us

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Bronson Diffin wrote:
How did you get Peter to model for the Thug?
Actually I modeled the guy in the hakama - took away the glasses, put on a wig, tied me into a hakama, a bit of artistic license and voila. We could not get a real non-Shodokan Aikidoist to go anywhere near the Shodothug model.

Peter Rehse Shodokan Aikido
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