Re: Ueshiba Sensei studied Chinese arts?
Mud wrestling?
Seriously its the same argument and a very good analogy.
Baseball can be traced through Rounders
but how about Basketball (we'll forget for a moment that it was actually invented by a Canadian).
Well it uses a court and baskets, both of which existed in Europe, the rules are quite traditional vis a vis fair play, I guess you could say it had European influence. However, not to many people would say its European although there are a few teams that might make it so eventually.
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