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Barry Clemons wrote:
If O'sensei is the founder, why is it OK for Tomiki to include competition into the curriculum?
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Necessity. To secure a place to train (and presumably funds), Tomiki needed to follow Waseda's guidelines for sports (sic) clubs.
Evidently, Osensei never had a gripe with Tomiki, although Kisshomaru asked him to stop calling what he did aikido.
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If O'sensei is the founder, why is it OK for Shioda to eliminate Ki from the curriculum?
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KI being what it is, it would be impossible to eliminate it. More precisely, he may have the way it is approached/eliminated TALK about it.
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If O'sensei is the founder, why was it OK for his son not to honor Tohei as head instructor, and by proxy his curriculum?
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It's good to be the king.
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I may be reducing things to their basics, but my position is that what O'sensei transmitted is what we should study; as is.
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Seems kind of overbearing to me. "Should"?! Where does that come from? I'd rather let folks study what they want.