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Old 05-19-2010, 08:40 PM   #12
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Re: Omote, Ura...

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Maggie Schill wrote: View Post
I don't know much about AAA...but Aikikai in general does distinguish between the two.
Oops, I meant there is a difference between the two in my Yoshinkan school, but not my aikikai school (which was AAA until around 2000.)

AAA was a huge organization until its kancho, Toyoda Fumio, passed away and many people split off in the following years (including us) and it has gotten smaller.

Toyoda Sensei was a student at Aikikai honbu, but went with Tohei Sensei when he split from honbu b/c Tohei was his first teacher and their family's were neighbors for something like 200 years. Then Toyoda Sensei split from Tohei Sensei and started the AAA.

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