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Old 03-10-2005, 06:50 PM   #16
Greg Jennings
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Re: I am not a samurai

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Thomas Dixon wrote:
After watching something on FitTV about Aikido and hearing someone preach about how it relates (and was practiced by) to samurai, I would like to state that Aikido is not budo, and never was used by any samurai. ever. It was created about 64 years after the samurai were officially disbanded and outlawed. While it was created from Jujutsu which is a budo...it is not jujutsu and therefore isn't a budo.
Above statement is like saying that a peach is not a fruit because it is not a pear.

Sincerely,

Greg Jennings
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